Attorney general Mark Herring and governor Ralph Northam admitted blacking up while Justin Fairfax faces sex allegation
The political crisis in Virginia escalated dramatically on Wednesday when the state’s attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor.
With Governor Ralph Northam’s career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the day’s developments threatened to take down Virginia’s top three elected officials, all of them Democrats.
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