Virginia’s off-year state election cycle normally has the effect of acting as a barometer for where politics and parties will go after a presidential election.

But in the Republican side of the Virginia gubernatorial nomination, an unusual and hotly debated “unassembled” convention taking place on Saturday has overshadowed the ideological debates among Republicans about the future of the party.

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