RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Polls have closed in Virginia where voters were deciding a history-making race for governor Tuesday that will serve as a barometer of attitudes toward President Donald Trump and Democrats’ attempts to regain their footing on the national stage.

Republican Winsome Earle-Sears , a staunch conservative who serves as Virginia’s lieutenant governor, and Democrat Abigail Spanberger , a center-left Democrat and former CIA case officer who helped her party win a House majority during Trump’s first presidency, were vying to become the first-ever woman to lead the commonwealth. Earle-Sears also would make history as the first Black woman elected governor in any state.

The race to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin took on national dimensions from the star

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