It will be very difficult to beat McAuliffe. I left VA in 2015 after being a resident for 36 years. I watched the state become solid blue. The last time a Republican won a statewide race was 2009.
There will be election fraud in addition to the demographic changes in the state. Mass immigration and domestic migration from the Northeast has transformed NoVA into San Francisco. One third of the residents of Fairfax County, the largest county in VA, are foreign born.
Whites make up 60% of the population. Blacks 19%. Asians 7%.