well for a republican up here when he ran for the senate a couple of years ago. he actually didn't do as well as republicans should do maybe in the rural parts of virginia. last year when donald trump was running, we're seeing trump get 75%, 85% in should have these counties. what gillespie was trying to pull off is culture issues he ran on aggressively. he was trying to get that 85% in places down here. doesn't look like he quite reached that number. but through the tactics you're talking about, he was still trying to be the ed gillespie of 2014. the ed gillespie of the bush era up here. the voters didn't buy it at all. again, this is going to be a debate, i think, was there a backlash? could it have worked without the campaign he ran? or was this just set in stone? what we are seeing in northern virginia tonight, was this just set in stone by that election result last year? by donald trump winning, by donald trump being the president, a version of the president that he was as a candidate, is northern virginia just locked into the same anti-trump position it was on election day last year? maybe even a little bit more so. if that's the case, and it's not