In the final days leading up to Tuesday's election, campaigning in the race for Ohio's governor is almost non-stop. 
 
21 News grilled the major candidates to find out why they believe they are the best person for that job.
 
Governor Mike DeWine in is proud of the state's job creation under his watch luring chip maker Intel and an investment of more than twenty billion dollars, and helping other business around the region and state during the first pandemic in around 100 years.
 
On WFMJ Today Lindsay McCoy asked the Governor about people in his own party  who are not happy with his lock down and mandates.
 
"I think I tried to take the information I had at the time and make the decision, that's all you an do. As the facts changed we had to change as well. said DeWine."
 
DeWine talked about how he and his administration worked to get teachers and students back to in person learning.
 
DeWine went to the border of the U.S. and Mexico, and Ohio sent it's national guard members down to the border in Texas. and Arizona.  Something has to be done. Each group was there for a year. A second group is finishing up. They continue to help It matters to us.
 
The Governor tells WFMJ News he tried to do everything he could to mitigate House Bill Six and believe it would be best to keep two new nuclear plants open since that leads to zero emissions.
 
Republican challenger Jim Renacci in our WFMJ Podcast says he has helped create jobs as a businessman and that DeWine shouldn't be running on his record of jobs creation.
 
"Ohio was the land of opportunity... and today we rank from 30th to 50th in new business and economic prosperity," emphasized Renacci.
 
"I am bringing a businessman's background to the governors office. Many restaurants have closed Lets look 
 
"We're in the top five of human trafficking, we are in the top five in the nation in drug overdoses, addictions under his leadership we lost 150,000 jobs," Renacci said.
 
 Democrat Challenger Nan Whaley a former mayor of Dayton who ran for Governor in 2017 says she is uniquely qualified to represent folks in Ohio and women's rights  better the others in this race. 
 
"Being a woman is an asset and opportunity in the November election. We have got to have candidates who are more diverse, I am from a working class family," said Whaley. 
 
Whaley explained she wants wages to go up for people, their bills go down and government to work for them. It means working one good job is enough, no matter what you do. It means investing in the renewable energy jobs.
 
Whaley explained she has always been pro choice and emphasized it is so important for women's health care that we have a Governor who will veto any bill that restricts women's access to health care decisions and abortion. 
 
John Cranley  democrat candidate for governor and recent Mayor of Cincinnati and co-founder of the Innocence Project says he has better ideas for job creation than the other candidates.  
 
Cranley tells WFMJ News while other counties and cities in the states have lost jobs Cincinnati has flourished under his leadership as Mayor.
 
"We are going to upgrade education k-12, summer school for kids who lost learning due to COVID. We are going to guarantee 30,000 jobs that pay 60,000 a year to build the infrastructure that we all need. We;re going to legalize marijuana, tax it and put the taxes into these jobs and we are going to provide a 500 a year dividend from natural gas to help them pay the bills and for inflation," said Cranley.