Northam has no choice but to remain in office because resigning is recognizing him: Chris Stirewalt

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has resisted growing calls for his resignation, despite the controversy surrounding the page of his racist yearbook. 19659002] On Friday, Northam's page of the 1984 yearbook of the Virginia Medical School Yearbook became viral, featuring a picture of one person in blackface and another in a KKK dress. The governor apologized, but backtracked the next day claiming that he was not in the photo.

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During the Special Debate on the Stars, Stirewalt, USA Today, Washington Office Chief Susan Page and the Washington Times Reviewer , Charles Hurt, asked if Northam could survive the political storm.

Stirewalt told the commission that Northam had "no choice" and that he "had to dig," because, he said leaving his post, it would be "the only way out". ;admit".

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"Frankly, I do not blame him, at this point he cheated Friday at a high price, from pen to post, he did that wrongly", Stirewalt said.

Susan Page was not of that opinion, insisting that he had "no other choice" than to resign.

"Legally, he can continue to be governor, but he can no longer govern," said Page. "Politicians can survive scandals like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, but they have done so by now supporting their base and he has lost the support of almost every Democrat in America."

GET THE APP FOX NEWS [19659004] Charles Hurt told the panel that the "silence" of Democrats and most media on Northam's remarks about late abortion was "shocking" and on how they had been frank as a result of the picture of the racist yearbook.