Scandals Drive Calls for Top Virginia Leadership to Resign

From left, Lt. Governor-elect Justin Fairfax, Attorney General-elect Mark Herring and Governor-elect Ralph Northam listen as Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe addresses a joint meeting of the House and Senate money committees at the Pocahontas Building in Richmond, Va. on Dec. 18, 2017 Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP

Virginia’s state government seemed to come unglued on Feb. 8 as an embattled Gov. Ralph Northam made it clear he won’t resign and the man in line to succeed him was hit with another sexual assault accusation and barraged with demands that he step down, too.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, during a campaign stop at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in 2017, is facing calls to resign after a picture showing him in blackface or a KKK outfit emerged on Feb. 1, 2019. Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images