Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin are closing their gubernatorial bids in Virginia's closely watched off-year elections with strikingly similar tactics to the campaigns that brought them to this point.
McAuliffe crisscrossed the state over the weekend, casting the Virginia elections as a chance for Democrats to validate their eight years of leadership here in the commonwealth's capital and, after spending millions of dollars to tie Youngkin to Donald Trump, as a potent way to deliver Republicans and the former President a defeat ahead of critical elections in 2022 and 2024.
"All eyes are on Virginia. The nation needs us to vote for them too. It needs us to vote for them too."Republicans have been demoralized by the losses at the statewide level, causing Republican voters outside the Northern Virginia suburbs -- where population growth has helped tilt the state towards Democrats -- to look at the Washington area with anger.
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