I hate to point out to you that Trump lost Virginia one year ago. Trump lost by a quarter of a million votes, too. If Trump, the man himself, the ultimate Trumpster, Trump as Trump, can't win, I would not go around pretending that someone aping Trump had a chance to win the contest. It was never in the cards. Whoever, the candidate would have been, would have lost.
Virginia is gone. Virginia is no longer a battleground state nor will it be contested in 2020.
Unless Trump succeeds in the Herculean task of dismantling the federal bureaucracy to the pre-WWII level.
If VA is as bad as you say, why did Gillespie even bother to waste money and energy by running.