Victory? Maybe, in the sense that a football team that hasn’t moved the ball in a half gets a first down. It’s a good start, and he got the regime to admit they lack the power to do something, while making them look bad. In football it’s a first down, in baseball, it’s a base hit. We need lots of them.
It gets Rand’s foot in the door for potential leadership in the GOP, but he needs to follow up.