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>> reporter: and make no mistake ed gilespie doesn't have to win in counties like this. he doesn't have to come close but he has to cut significantly into the margins up here. the ed gilespie of 2013 was pretty well situated to do that. hoohe was seen as a bush romney republicans. you are seeing some say he tilted more towards the donald trump play book they have seen that sort of turn off voters here. it is the tradeoff between northern virginia republicans and republicans in other parts of the state who are looking to embrace donald trump a little more. that is the dynamic i think we are wat...

>> reporter: we mostly smell rain out here. it has been a gloomy, wet and cold day here. democratic stronghold. the numbers have been good here. they are sort of on track with 2013 when terry mcauliffe was elected governor. the enthusiasm is with the democratic ticket. part of it is people who say they just want to oppose a president who they don't like. >> i am very much against donald trump and everything he stands for and i think a vote for the republican ticket is a vote for donald trump. i think gilespie is following his play book. >> gilespie. >> reporter: why? >> it was a difficult deci...

It's close. ralph north amonly up by a couple of points. how much stock should we put into this? >> remember what happened with the polls around this time? when you see it you take it with a grain of salt. there have been a lot of polls in the last week or so a dozen polls here in virginia. and you do see a lead. it's a small lead but it's a steady lead basically almost every poll taken has shown him up a couple points here. that's close enough. something funny can happen here. gilespie can win this thing. if gilespie does win i think you have questions to ask about the polls. if you are a dem...

Today voters are electing their next governor. in new jersey democrats expected to take back governorship. phil murphy has a lead over kim guandano. virginia is the race everyone is watching. the campaign between ralph no h northapple and ted gilespie. donald trump tweeting from asia through his support behind gilespie. in one tweet he said he would turn around high crime and poor economic performance. the washington post noting unemployment has been consistently lower than the u.s. as a whole. of the 50 states only 13 have

Gilespie? how much of a factor do you think it will be depending on who northam whether or not minorities end up showing up for northam? >> just to put a finer point on that, this issue that gilespie faces here running on this sort of trumpism. look at the blue areas. this is the clinton/trump result. he basically got one out of every four votes coming out of these blue counties. here is a really good example. this is loudoun county. when he ran for the senate in 2014 he actually won loudoun county by a very small margin but won it. donald trump last year in the same county running against hil...