“Eddie G losing sends the right message to the primary voters. No more establishment.”
It does send the right message to 10,000 people or so who are immersed in Virginia Republican politics.
...and the MEDIA gets to decide what message it sends to the rest of the country. They can say one of two things:
1) This was a local election and the Virginia Republican Party was SENT A MESSAGE by the base to stop nominating RINOs.
2) OR - the media can say that TRUMP WAS TOTALLY REJECTED by the voters of Virginia.
I think most here know which way the media will spin it.
The people that vote in primaries, especially Republican primaries, are MSM savvy. They know the score. They know an Eddie win is a Rove win too. They know that it is a defeat for MAGA.