Of course the line of succession from Governor Ralph Northam would be
2) Lt Governor Justin Fairfax (D)
3) Attorney General Mark Herring (D)
followed by:
4) Speaker of the House
Kirk Cox (R), who apparently hasn't worn blackface or a Klan robe, or raped anyone.
However...
Tommy Norment (R), the current Virginia state Senate Majority Leader, well...
In February 2019 it was revealed that Norment was an editor of the 1968 Virginia Military Institute yearbook that showed students in Ku Klux Klan attire, blackface, and listed them with racially offensive nicknames, which came to light in the context of the 2019 Virginia political crisis.[7]
Former students of his at William and Mary in the 2010s accuse Norment of teaching racist material and making racist and transphobic statements in class.[8]
This Feb 2nd article from the
Washington Post details the scandal at the beginning, when everyone was willing to ask for Gov. Noethaam's resignation, including Nancy Pelosi and many other Democrats. Now when Lt Gov. Fairfax and Mark Herring are similarly tarnished and would clear the path for a Republican... not so much! Those calls are diminishing.
