re: #46 ggt
Most of the Northern Tip of VA is made up of Federal employees or lobbyists, IIRC. If they can’t get enough signatures it’s because they didn’t want to.
As I understand it, VA’s rules are that you can’t just go to a major metro area and collect signatures - they have to be from counties across the state.
Sounds like a lack of a ground game on Newtie and Perry’s parts.