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Both Virginia gubernatorial candidates will debate Thursday at 7 p.m. at Norfolk State University.
The long-awaited face off between Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and the Democratic candidate, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, follows an expensive campaign trail, with both candidates raising tens of millions of dollars along the way. Currently, Spanberger holds a comfortable fundraising lead, with more than $41 million raised — Earle-Sears has raised over than $16 million, according to the Virginia Public Access Project .
Spanberger has also maintained her polling lead, according to separate polls recently released by Christopher Newport University and Emerson College/The Hill — bo