"nearly 200 miles from the White House"
The DC Bolsheviks ain't gonna drive 3+ hours each way to save her restaurant. (Maybe she wanted to retire and decided to leave with a "bang".)
It would take them 3+ hours just to escape the worst metropolitan traffic in the nation. Then add another 3 hours for the drive down to Lexington. That area of Virginia is VERY Conservative. Little liberal Lexington is in the middle of a Conservative county surrounded by Conservative counties.