Principles or power? Virginia political scandal a test for Democrats

If all three step aside, the next in line to be governor is the Republican House speaker. "This is a moment of reckoning for Virginia," said Stephen Farnsworth, a political scientist at Mary Washington University in Virginia. "Political principles that cost you something are always a lot harder to maintain." Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and state Attorney General Mark Herring, who is third in line to the governor, have acknowledged wearing blackface while students in college in the 1980s, an act widely seen as racist although it was not uncommon in television and movies of the time.

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