Judy Woodruff:

We turn now to the midterm elections, less than two weeks away.

Thirty-six of the 50 governorships are up for grabs this year. And while Republicans currently control three-fourths of them, Democrats are mounting surprisingly strong challenges in some key places across the country.

To talk about a few of these, I'm joined by Bill Nigut of Georgia Public Broadcasting in Atlanta, Frederica Freyberg of Wisconsin Public Television in Madison, and Tom Hudson of WLRN Public Radio in Miami.

Hello to all three of you. We're so glad to have you with us.

I'm going to start with the biggest population state. Tom Hudson, of course, that's Florida, and you.

The incumbent, Republican Governor Rick Scott, is given that up to run for the U.S. Senate. And it's turned into a pretty tight race between the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee and Republican Congressman Ron DeSantis.

Tell us what each one of these men has going this their favor and what's working against them.