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The Democratic Party kicked off Black History Month with a trip back to its racist roots with the controversy surrounding Virginia Governor Ralph Northam and a photo appearing to so him in either blackface or a KKK hood. He claims it wasn’t him although he did admit to wearing blackface in the past. As Democratic politicians and liberal media folks called on him to resign, a panel of journalists on CNN’s Inside Politics tacitly admitted that the calls were happening because the political timing was significant.
New York Times national political correspondent Jonathan Martin pointed out that Democrats “beyond the state” were “even more concerned” because the 2020 presidential race was coming up. “[T]hey want to have clean hands when it comes to this president,” he explained. “And they want to be able to sort of prosecute the case against Trump without the Trump folks saying ‘hypocrite, hypocrite’.”
“Timing is everything in politics,” proclaimed host John King as he proceeded to seemingly admit that Northam may have survived the controversy almost any other time. “There may have been a time in this Michael Jackson episode if he disclosed it himself in some previous campaign, maybe you can get through it.” King also noted that the pressures from 2020 and state politics were great:
But you mentioned the state politics issues. Democrats think they can make important gains in the legislature. The business part of being governor. Then there's the national moment. Trump in the White House. Many Democrats call him a racist. This historically diverse Democratic field for president coming out of the 2018 midterms.
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