And we have a live look at Aldi, Virginia, where voters are counting their final ballots in Virginia's high-stakes governor's race.

And we are here for it. I'm Aaron Burnett in New York.

And I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, D.C. We're just minutes away from polls closing across the river in Virginia.

The outcome of the Commonwealth's governor's race could give us the very first gauge of the political headwinds of the night.

In Virginia, former Democratic Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger and Virginia's sitting lieutenant governor, Republican Winston Earl Sears,

are both vying to become Virginia's very first woman

governor. Our reporters are covering every aspect of the story across the Commonwealth. Let's go to CNN's

Jeff Zellany, who's at the Spamberger campaign headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. Jeff?

Well, Jake, Abigail Spanberger is looking to spark a Democratic revival here in Virginia.

There are just a few more moments before the polls closed.

But for the last two hours since people have gotten out of work,

the campaign has been focusing intently on those suburban voters that are so key to her driving up the turnout in northern Virginia,

here in Richmond and in southeast Virginia as well.

The campaign, Jake, is confident.

It is as confident as any Democrat that we have talked to for the last year.

The question is the margin.

In the final hours of this campaign, Abigail Spanberger was talking about wanting to crush

victory.

Look for a decisive victory. The translation to that is, Jake, they're looking for a double-digit victory. That would be more than the victory in 2017 that Ralph Northam got. He got about 9 percent, of course, that was the year after Donald Trump was elected. We shall see about that margin. But one thing is clear that Democrats believe that Abigail Spanberger,

who of course was part of that blue Democratic wave back in 2018, the CIA case officer who ran for

office there as Democrats swept to their House majority. They believe that she is the type of Democrat

who can win here in Virginia. But voters also say they have the federal government shut down well on their

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