Equity. Justin fairfax is now facing dual accusations that he raped or sexually assaulted women in the early 2000s as calls grow for fair fox to resign. Nbc news confirms the Lieutenant Governor will make an announcement by monday according to a spokesperson. Also holed up and plotting next steps, the states number three democrat, attorney general mark herring, who spent this week quietly trying to mend fences after admitting that he also donned blackface in the 1980s. Folks, i was in virginia this week speaking at an interfaith rally on the campus of the historically black Virginia Union university, and this is what i told them. I said to them that we must look at all these situations, one where you have admitted by the governor and secretary general of engaging in blackface, which is racist in its founding and its development, and another where there are serious charges of sexual abuse that is being disputed. We must take both of them seriously, but not con inflate them, and we must
them as democrats will be forced to. and you re a republican saying that. we have all the issues that are facing us right now not just in virginia but still the unanswered issue as to to deal with african-american men and women being killed by police around the country. these are important issues that have to be dealt with and the candidates who want to be the nominee are going to have to deal with them. alex, is the not true that if the democratic party, who eventually becomes the democratic nominee does deal with this issues along with other critical issues, the economy and certainly health care and other issues, that it will energize the vote and that it is going to be difficult to get people to come out and vote? i always say if you re not talking to people, they re not going to respond. isn t it really in the interest of the democrats to talk to the base voters that they ve depended on, not just talk to