More than 18 months after apologizing for wearing a “racist and offensive” costume in a medical school yearbook photo, Ralph “Coonman” Northam is still the Democratic governor of Virginia. The race to succeed him in 2021 has already begun.
Justin Fairfax, Virginia’s Democratic lieutenant governor, on Thursday filed a $400 million defamation lawsuit against CBS Corporation and CBS Broadcasting Inc. over interviews with women who accused Fairfax of sexual assault. 
The Democratic Party of Virginia has accepted $50,000 from Virginia governor Ralph Northam's political action committee since early August after previously calling for Northam to "immediately resign." 
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) publicly praised Virginia governor Ralph Northam Wednesday on its Twitter feed for the first time since a photo from the governor's medical school yearbook page emerged featuring an individual in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe. 
Donald Sussman, a billionaire hedge fund manager, donated $100,000 to a Democratic political action committee in Virginia earlier this month, making him the single largest donor outside of the PAC's board members.
National Democratic groups that previously called on Virginia governor Ralph Northam to resign announced a partnership with his political action committee to flip the commonwealth's Republican-controlled legislature this November. 
South Bend mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg on Saturday repeated his call for Virginia's Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax to resign. 
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D.), who is facing two allegations of sexual assault, is being denied a table at the Democratic Party of Virginia's Blue Commonwealth Gala fundraiser in June.
Another high-ranking Virginia Democrat is facing accusations of misconduct. 
The end of Virginia's legislative session last week brings to the fore a closely watched campaign season, with control of both chambers of the legislature in contention. 