Fellow Democrats who called for him to resign appear to have changed their minds
IN FEBRUARY, it seemed as if Ralph Northam’s tenure as governor of Virginia was about to come to an early end. Because Mr Northam, a Democrat, had put on blackface 35 years earlier—and then done an abysmal job trying to explain it—nearly every elected Democratic official in the state demanded his resignation. So did many beyond, including Nancy Pelosi.
African-American lawmakers, among the governor’s toughest critics over the blackface scandal, are now embracing him. In Portsmouth, a heavily black, down-at-heel city not far from the state’s Atlantic coastline, Mr Northam turned up last week to endorse a prized redevelopment project, where he was hugged by Senator Louise Lucas, Portsmouth’s leading politician.
That has provided an opening for Republicans, who are terrified of losing their last redoubt of power in Virginia, the General Assembly, in elections in November. Weeks of unflattering headlines about Mr Northam and scalding criticism of him on social media, have given Republicans an opportunity to portray themselves as problem-solvers rather than partisans.
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