Three of the state's top Democrats are engulfed in a scandal that has shaken the state government. Terry McAuliffe, said, "Voters could take this out on Democrats ... less as an ideological shift but more as an issue of repercussions for genuine political scandal." "Democrats at the top are killing the Great State of Virginia," he tweeted Thursday. The party flipped state legislative seats across Virginia in 2017, while Northam, Fairfax and Herring won with surprising ease. The situation is complicated by the racial politics of the three Virginia officials at the center of the scandal.

Source: Economic Times February 08, 2019 06:11 UTC