Virginians head to the polls this coming Tuesday, voting for the state's next governor.

But the results may also serve as a referendum on the President's first 10 months in office

and offer clues of what to expect across the country in next year's midterms.

Liz Landers catches up with the candidates and the voters.

As Virginia schools kick off homecoming celebrations, just

made on the goalposts, the state's off-year race for governor plays out along the sidelines

and at the tailgate parties. We're at Hampton University. This is a historically black college

in the Tidewater region in Virginia. And Abigail Spanberger is campaigning here today during their homecoming weekend.

She's doing what she's done for the better part of a year.

Hi, I'm Abigail.

Introducing herself to voters and keeping the focus on health care and the economy.

Spanberger is a former CIA analyst who won a seat in Congress in 2018 in a district that hadn't elected a Democrat in decades.

I'm proud of the work that I did and the bills I had signed into law and all of it took coalition building.

I see all my rowdy friends are here.

A few miles down the road, but a world away politically.

Abigail voted not to send those who are criminals and illegally here home.

When Summer O'Siers is running as an ally of Donald Trump, a Marine Corps veteran, Earl Sears made history four years ago when she became the first woman of color elected to a statewide office as lieutenant governor on a ticket with Glenn Yonkin.

And the next governor of the great commonwealth.

The Republican gubernatorial nominee is running on the Yonken economy a simple message to keep a good thing going,

and by leaning into culture war issues that swept Republicans into office four years ago and turned Northern Virginia's school board meetings into fights over parental rights and transgender students in bathrooms and sports.

I am disgusting by your bigotry and you're depravity.

Recent bowling doesn't show the issue resonating as deeply with voters this year.

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