All three of those centers are run by a hospital organization called Augusta Health. The executive director of Virginia’s Republican Party was asked about those cuts by CNN. He told them the closure of those three rural health care centers is “a win for rural communities,” because now residents will be able to get “better, more consistent” service elsewhere — meaning, not where they live. That kind of absolutely tone-deaf, callous response from Virginia Republicans would be strange in normal times. On Friday, early voting officially began in Virginia’s high-stakes race for governor.