In the final weeks of the Virginia governor’s race, the two candidates have zeroed in on differing issues.
Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate and frontrunner, has focused on the federal government shutdown that’s impacting many federal workers in the state.
The former congresswoman and CIA employee is currently polling at 52 percent and is 10 percentage points ahead of her rival, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, the Republican nominee.
Earle-Sears has taken to emphasizing education and transgender matters to consolidate GOP voters and appeal, from a different angle, to Spanberger’s target: the vote-rich suburbs of Washington, D.C., in Northern Virginia that have become the keys to success in the Commonwealth….