The expectation is that sitting Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears (R-VA) will not win in her hometown.

The drive from Pennsylvania to Winchester, Virginia, situated in the Shenandoah Valley between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Alleghenies, is filled with orange, green, and red rolling hills. Signs for all of the Virginia candidates dot the roadways and homes all around; however, it seemed there were fewer than in previous Virginia gubernatorial races, dating back to 2005.

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