{"id":603070,"date":"2021-07-26T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=603070"},"modified":"2021-07-26T17:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T21:06:32","slug":"biden-praises-blackface-virginia-dem-after-saying-he-had-zero-moral-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-praises-blackface-virginia-dem-after-saying-he-had-zero-moral-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Praises Blackface Virginia Dem After Saying He Had Zero \u2018Moral Authority\u2019"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fbiden-praises-blackface-virginia-dem-after-saying-he-had-zero-moral-authority%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=603070&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1233153062-e1627329548440.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Biden, who called for Virginia governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s resignation in 2019, praised the disgraced Democrat Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First off, it goes without saying how much I appreciate your current governor, Ralph Northam, by the way,&#8221; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/07\/24\/remarks-by-president-biden-at-campaign-event-for-virginia-gubernatorial-candidate-terry-mcauliffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at a rally for Democrat Terry McAuliffe, a former governor campaigning to succeed Northam, his former lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n<p>Biden condemned Northam unreservedly in 2019, when a racist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/02\/01\/politics\/northam-blackface-photo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">photo from his medical school yearbook surfaced<\/a>. Northam acknowledged that he was in the photograph but refused to say whether he was the person wearing blackface or dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no place for racism in America. Governor Northam has lost all moral authority and should resign immediately,&#8221; Biden&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1091712355849945088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> after the photo surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is not the only politician who flip-flopped on Northam in the wake of the scandal. McAuliffe condemned his former lieutenant governor,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/terry-mcauliffe-confronted-ralph-northam-endorsement-resignation-blackface-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> Northam&#8217;s participation in the photo &#8220;racist, unacceptable, and inexcusable at any age and any time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McAuliffe is running a tight race against Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin and enjoyed a slight lead in a statewide&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/558307-mcauliffe-leading-youngkin-by-4-points-in-virginia-governor-race-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poll<\/a>&nbsp;taken in July. Democrats are attempting to rally around McAuliffe in the wake of a contentious primary in which several black candidates criticized the former governor and Democratic party chairman for his record on race.&nbsp;McAuliffe has drifted to the left in the wake of the primary. While he ran as a fiscal moderate in the 2013 governor&#8217;s race,&nbsp;he has indicated that he would repeal right-to-work laws he used to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiamercury.com\/2021\/06\/03\/he-opposed-right-to-work-repeal-before-but-mcauliffe-wont-say-take-a-clear-stance-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support<\/a>&nbsp;and embraced a wider Medicaid expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also explained his endorsement of McAuliffe on liberal grounds. While the president has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/03\/10\/biden-says-he-wouldd-veto-medicare-for-all-as-coronavirus-focuses-attention-on-health.html\">balked<\/a> at universal health care proposals in the past&nbsp;because of the massive cost, he welcomed the idea at the Virginia rally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Terry knows the work continues\u2014that health care should be right, just not a privilege, folks,&#8221; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden&#8217;s own government spending plan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/04\/28\/fact-sheet-the-american-families-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would cost<\/a> $1.8 trillion over 10 years, even as some economists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/04\/09\/economy\/us-inflation-rising\/index.html\">fear<\/a>&nbsp;that the pandemic stimulus will lead to higher levels of inflation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden, who called for Virginia governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s resignation in 2019, praised the disgraced Democrat Friday. &#8220;First off, it goes without saying how much I appreciate your current governor, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603070","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\/603070","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=603070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603070\/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=603070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}