It will be a while until we have authoritative data on turnout in Virginia, but at the moment I think it's fair to say two things, judged against 2020:
--Black/non-white turnout was weak for Democrats
--Otherwise, Democratic turnout was probably fine
--Black/non-white turnout was weak for Democrats
--Otherwise, Democratic turnout was probably fine
For clarity, I've assigned the turnout among early voters to each precinct using voter file data, allowing for a direct comparison to 2020 turnout using vote history data
In overwhelmingly Black precincts, turnout was just over half of 2020 levels. It was at about 75% of 2020 levels in areas with no Black voters. 
This pattern seems to hold among all nonwhite voters. There are far fewer non-Black, non-white precincts in VA, so no nice scatterplot, but clearly turnout held much higher among white voters
But leaving the dropoff in Black/nonwhite turnout aside, turnout in Democratic precincts appears entirely healthy. So it's reasonable to assume white Democratic turnout was quite fine; probably not great differential partisan turnout dropoff among nonwhite voters
It should be noted that a drop in nonwhite turnout is typical in off year elections. Nonetheless, this is a bigger drop off than we projected given this level of turnout (see an earlier tweet)
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