Future of Ralph Northam?

[Bootes Void]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

[beaver2.0]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

[Bootes Void]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

No one really cares this anymore so I doubt it, but he will most likely retire or get an ambassadorship postion in the biden admin

[beaver2.0]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

No one really cares this anymore so I doubt it, but he will most likely retire or get an ambassadorship postion in the biden admin

I disagree.  My conservative friends often bring the scandal up when mentioning Northam and more than a few of them refer to him as "Governor Blackface".  I'm fairly sure the scandal will follow him wherever he goes.  I expect him to work in some kind of thinktank for the rest of his career.

[rhg2052]

I think it seems like nobody cares about the blackface thing because he hasn't run for office or been appointed to one since the scandal broke. It would absolutely be an issue if he ever tried to run for anything again.

[politicallefty]

Like many other states where the sitting Governor is term-limited and the Senate seats are held by the same party, he'll have to find something else to do for the next few years. Neither of the Senate seats are going to open up anytime soon. It's possible he could wait and run for Governor again in 2025.

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

He's been a good governor and passed a lot of progressive legislation, hope he's able to move on past the scandal.

[Fight for Trump]

He's only even still in office because wearing blackface is preferable to being a rapist. He should serve out his term and be thankful the history books won't be too harsh on him.

[Beet]

The whole Northam-Fairfax-Herring thing is the most comic thing I've ever seen in politics.

[NewYorkExpress]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

No one really cares this anymore so I doubt it, but he will most likely retire or get an ambassadorship postion in the biden admin

I disagree.  My conservative friends often bring the scandal up when mentioning Northam and more than a few of them refer to him as "Governor Blackface".  I'm fairly sure the scandal will follow him wherever he goes.  I expect him to work in some kind of thinktank for the rest of his career.

He shouldn't even get that.

I honestly would've preferred a Republican as Governor for three years than any of Northam, Fairfax or Herring.

Then we could have a Carroll Foy win this year.

[Bootes Void]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

No one really cares this anymore so I doubt it, but he will most likely retire or get an ambassadorship postion in the biden admin

I disagree.  My conservative friends often bring the scandal up when mentioning Northam and more than a few of them refer to him as "Governor Blackface".  I'm fairly sure the scandal will follow him wherever he goes.  I expect him to work in some kind of thinktank for the rest of his career.

He shouldn't even get that.

I honestly would've preferred a Republican as Governor for three years than any of Northam, Fairfax or Herring.

Then we could have a Carroll Foy win this year.

How would the victories of 2017 have anything to do with Carrol Foy running this year? If anything a republican governor would also likely lead to another republican governor as they would likely have a record to run on.

[NewYorkExpress]

He is term limited and has been one of Virginia's most progressive governors in state history. What will he do next? Future VP, senate run, cabinet appointee, thinktank, run for another Virginia office? or retire.

I think the whole blackface scandal has killed his career on the federal level.

No one really cares this anymore so I doubt it, but he will most likely retire or get an ambassadorship postion in the biden admin

I disagree.  My conservative friends often bring the scandal up when mentioning Northam and more than a few of them refer to him as "Governor Blackface".  I'm fairly sure the scandal will follow him wherever he goes.  I expect him to work in some kind of thinktank for the rest of his career.

He shouldn't even get that.

I honestly would've preferred a Republican as Governor for three years than any of Northam, Fairfax or Herring.

Then we could have a Carroll Foy win this year.

How would the victories of 2017 have anything to do with Carrol Foy running this year? If anything a republican governor would also likely lead to another republican governor as they would likely have a record to run on.

Virginia is a state that is steadily becoming more Democratic. I'd wager a Democrat would still be favored in an open seat race in Virginia for the Governor's mansion this even with an outgoing Republican incumbent.

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Being "most progressive in state history" is more a byproduct of being the first Democrat to have a trifecta since the blue dogs were purged from the state party than it is anything else.

[LtNOWIS]

Even without the blackface scandal, Northam doesn't really have the chops to go anywhere else, and there are no US Senate vacancies. He'll hit the ex-governor circuit of cutting ribbons and attending dinners, same as all the other Virginia ex-governors who aren't McAuliffe, Kaine or Warner.

[DaleCooper]

Probably nothing. I doubt that there would've been much of a future for him anyway because the scandal would've been brought up relentlessly in any primary going forward.

I am glad that he didn't resign, though.

[Coldstream]

I can’t see any situation where he wins a statewide Democrat primary anymore. Even against minor opposition they’d hit him so hard on blackface that he’d lose.