{"id":1206441,"date":"2022-01-11T00:04:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T05:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206441"},"modified":"2022-01-11T00:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T05:04:36","slug":"tim-kaine-backtracks-says-he-is-glad-ralph-northam-stayed-in-office-after-blackface-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-kaine-backtracks-says-he-is-glad-ralph-northam-stayed-in-office-after-blackface-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Kaine Backtracks, Says He Is &#039;Glad&#039; Ralph Northam Stayed in Office After Blackface Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-kaine-backtracks-says-he-is-glad-ralph-northam-stayed-in-office-after-blackface-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1206441&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2022\/01\/09\/governor-northam-blackface-scandal-legacy\/\">backtracked<\/a> on his call for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to resign over his blackface scandal, telling the <em>Washington Post<\/em> he is \u201cglad he didn\u2019t listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kaine, Hillary Clinton\u2019s failed vice presidential candidate, joined fellow former governor Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA) in a 2019 letter calling on Northam to resign as a picture of the governor in either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan robe resurfaced from a college yearbook.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10064010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-865418906.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10064010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-865418906.jpg\" alt=\"SPRINGFIELD, VA - OCTOBER 23: Democratic gubernatorial candidate and Virginia Lieutenant Governor Ralph Northam speaks to residents during a visit at Greenspring Retirement Community October 23, 2017 in Springfield, Virginia. Northam is running against Republican Ed Gillespie to be the next governor of Virginia. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAfter we watched his press conference today, we called Governor Northam to tell him that we no longer believe he can effectively serve as Governor of Virginia and that he must resign,\u201d the senators and Scott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/02\/02\/ralph-northam-resign-yearbook-racist-democrats-1144283\">said<\/a> in their statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGovernor Northam has served the people of the Commonwealth faithfully for many years, but the events of the past 24 hours have inflicted immense pain and irrevocably broken the trust Virginians must have in their leaders,\u201d they continued. \u201cHe should step down and allow the Commonwealth to begin healing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Northam first apologized for being in the photo but later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/02\/ralph-northam-reverses-does-not-believe-he-was-in-racist-photo\/\">reversed<\/a> himself saying, \u201che does \u2018not believe\u2019 he was in the photo and further claimed he had never seen the photo from his page before.\u201d He also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/02\/ralph-northam-i-dont-know-why-friends-called-me-coonman-in-college\/\">claimed<\/a> he did not know why his friends called him \u201ccoonman\u201d in college.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_10066473\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gov-Ralph-Northam-protesters-ap.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10066473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Gov-Ralph-Northam-protesters-ap.jpg\" alt=\"Democrat scandals\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold signs and chant outside the Governor\u2019s Mansion at the Capitol in Richmond, VA, Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019. The demonstrators are calling for the resignation of Virginia Governor Ralph Northam after a 30-year-old photo of him on his medical school yearbook photo was widely distributed. (AP Photo\/Steve Helber)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kaine went on to tell the <em>Post<\/em> that Northam is \u201cthe most consequential Virginia governor of the modern era.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of the scandal, many Democrats called on the governor to resign, including former Gov. Douglas Wilder (D), who became the Commonwealth\u2019s first black governor since Reconstruction and the first black governor popularly elected to any state in the country, who said, \u201cit is difficult for anyone who watched the press conference today to conclude that he has any other choice \u2026 but to resign.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I stated, earlier, that Gov. Northam\u2019s continuing in office was his choice to make. It is difficult for anyone who watched the press conference today to conclude that he has any other choice \u2026 but to resign.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 L. Douglas Wilder (@GovernorWilder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovernorWilder\/status\/1091855185993859072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who failed in his attempt at a second term in the office, also reversed himself on his call for Northam to resign during the 2021 campaign and began campaigning with the governor. McAuliffe at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/youngkin-campaign-mcauliffe-video-ad-northams-blackface-photo\">said<\/a> it was \u201cracist, unacceptable and inexcusable at any age,\u201d but during the campaign simply called it a \u201cdumb mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Northam was McAuliffe\u2019s lieutenant governor and succeeded him in office.<\/p>\n<p>Wilder, who refused to endorse McAuliffe and who now serves on Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin\u2019s transition team, slammed McAuliffe at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/tyler-o-neil\/2021\/07\/08\/virginias-first-black-governor-eviscerates-terry-mcauliffes-virtue-signaling-on-race-n1460259\">saying<\/a>, \u201cThe people of Virginia have not forgotten, they\u2019re not stupid. They\u2019re not fooled, they\u2019re not being hoodwinked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin\u2019s campaign also ran an ad juxtaposing McAuliffe\u2019s flip-flop.<\/p>\n<p>Northam\u2019s term ends January 15 when Youngkin is set to be sworn into office. Virginia also elected Republicans for lieutenant governor and attorney general, ending full Democrat control of statewide offices.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breccan F. Thies<\/em>&nbsp;<em>is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreccanFThies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@BreccanFThies<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine (VA) backtracked on his call for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) to resign over his blackface scandal, telling the Washington Post he is \u201cglad he didn\u2019t &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}