{"id":557877,"date":"2021-06-09T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=557877"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:07:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:07:17","slug":"democrats-choose-white-man-to-succeed-blackface-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-choose-white-man-to-succeed-blackface-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Choose White Man to Succeed Blackface Governor"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fdemocrats-choose-white-man-to-succeed-blackface-governor%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=557877&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--><div readability=\"30.679069767442\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Terry McAuliffe cruises to nomination, crushes minority opponents in repeat of 2020 presidential primary<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"490\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-736x490-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-e1623246883438.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-768x511.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\">\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/andrew-stiles\/\" title=\"Posts by Andrew Stiles\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Andrew Stiles<\/a> \u2022 June 9, 2021 9:59 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"79.901495162709\">\n<p>Democrats on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to nominate former governor Terry McAuliffe (D., Va.) to succeed Gov. Ralph Northam (D., Va.), who is somehow still in office after surviving a series of racism scandals involving <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/ralph-northams-yearbook-page-contains-picture-of-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blackface<\/a> and a Ku Klux Klan outfit.<\/p>\n<p>In a repeat of the 2020 presidential primary, Democratic voters were more comfortable backing a familiar white man in a field that featured a number of qualified minority candidates. McAuliffe cruised to the nomination, winning every single county in the state and finishing with 62.3 percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Former state lawmaker Jennifer Carroll Foy came in second with 19.8 percent of the vote. Jennifer McClellan, a state senator from Richmond, placed third with 11.6 percent. The runners-up were denied a chance at making history, as both were vying to become the first black woman to serve as governor (of any state).<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D., Va.) placed a distant fourth at just 3.5 percent. Once considered the obvious choice to succeed Northam, his political ambitions were significantly undermined by credible allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/mcauliffe-calls-on-fairfax-to-resign-after-second-sexual-assault-accusation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sexual assault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>, a politics blog owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, declined to back any of the black candidates for governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/mcauliffe-racism-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsing<\/a>\u00a0McAuliffe in the primary. During his first term as governor, McAuliffe was instrumental in persuading Amazon to locate its second headquarters in Arlington, Va., one of the wealthiest municipalities in the country. McAuliffe lured the controversial trillion-dollar company to the state in part by offering\u00a0tax incentives worth up to $750 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u2018s endorsement, which made no mention of the Amazon deal, was not the first time the politics blog had embraced a white politician in a controversial and racially charged fashion. In 2019, the blog&#8217;s editorial board demanded Northam&#8217;s resignation after the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/ralph-northams-yearbook-page-contains-picture-of-men-in-blackface-kkk-robe\/\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0to wearing either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood in a photo published in his medical school yearbook. Less than a year later, the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u00a0published a second editorial recanting its call for Northam&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/democrats-against-black-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has a history<\/a> of backing white candidates at the expense of qualified minorities.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Terry McAuliffe cruises to nomination, crushes minority opponents in repeat of 2020 presidential primary  Andrew Stiles \u2022 June 9, 2021 9:59 am Democrats on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2279724,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-736x490-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Choose White Man to Succeed Blackface Governor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/white-terry-736x490-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Choose White Man to Succeed Blackface Governor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557877","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}