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During a particularly heated exchange during Thursday night’s Virginia gubernatorial debate, Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears challenged her opponent to deliver a pointed message to the state’s two Democratic senators — "Do your job" — and vote to end the government shutdown .

Earle-Sears knocked her opponent, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, for not doing more to urge the state’s two Democratic senators, Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, to end the shutdown, which has impacted hundreds of thousands of federal workers and military service members living in Virginia .

"My opponent all summer long has been playing political football with federal workers by trying to say that she loves them more than anyone else. Well, let

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