LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- On the eve of the general election, Kentucky's gubernatorial candidates made their final push to voters.

The polls will open at 6 a.m. Tuesday for the most expensive governor's race in the commonwealth's history.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Daniel Cameron, the state's attorney general, held final campaign rallies Monday evening in one of the more closely watched races in the nation. The most recent predictions have them in a dead heat.

The last governor's race, between Beshear and then-Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, was decided by 5,000 votes, both candidates know every vote will count.

"Are you ready to win? Are you ready to beat Daniel Cameron?" Beshear asked Monday night to the crowd.

On the eve of the election, both candidates rallied in front of ardent supporters. Beshear in Louisville, and Cameron in Elizabethtown.

"Before we remove Joe Biden from the White House, let's do the job tomorrow and remove Andy Beshear from the Statehouse," Cameron said.

The Republican challenger once again went on the attack against Beshear's COVID-19 lockdown restrictions.

"And I assure you, we will never shut down your small businesses, your schools, and certainly never your churches," said Cameron.

But Beshear has consistently defended his pandemic policies and touted his record, pointing to the state's economic growth, new jobs across the state, and the budget surplus.

"Which means we have more than enough money to give public school educators the raises they deserve," he said.

Cameron continued to tie Beshear to Democratic President Joe Biden.

"It is crazy to have a governor here in Kentucky who would openly endorse Joe Biden for president," Cameron said.

Beshear has argued that the campaign comes down to competing messages of "division vs. vision."

"What you're hearing is fear and anger, and asking you to violate the golden rule, trying to get one Kentuckian to hate another," he said.

While Beshear and Cameron don't share a lot of policies, they both see the promise in Kentucky, and both hope to be the ones to lead the state.

Beshear, while the incumbent in the governor's race, is going to have to overcome a red wave spreading across Kentucky. The same night he beat Bevin in 2019, Cameron won the race for attorney general by 200,000 votes while Republicans swept other offices.

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