First, none of the 8 Virginia republicans voted for it.!!!
Second, of your 5 “cowards”, 4 of them are gone, 2 retired and 2 were voted out of office. I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t even back after Christmas, they probably already packed up and went home.
Third, “Primary-ed” isn’t really a word. The “word”, so to speak, would be “Primaried”, except that isn’t a word either (well, it actually IS a word, but it is an adjective associated with birds, not a verb.)
We have taken recently to saying someone should be “primaried”, but that is because we are lazy, and don’t want to say “challenged in the primary”. Which means in a couple of years, “primaried” will end up being a word, because that is how new words are formed.