
McAuliffe and Youngkin close tight governor's race with the same strategies that got them here
CNN
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.
Youngkin, splitting his time between vote rich areas around the Washington, DC, suburbs and rural stretches of western Virginia over the weekend, focused intently on local issues, only giving a passing acknowledgment of the national significance of the race.

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