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Left pressures Ralph Northam to resign after blackface, KKK picture

By Caitlin Yilek
Published February 2, 2019 12:50am ET
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Left pressures Ralph Northam to resign after blackface, KKK picture
"We don't go into the classroom to enforce the law," Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., said about President Trump's suggestion to get teachers to carry guns in the classroom. "We go to teach. So, that's not an option that I would find acceptable." | (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Calls for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation are piling up.

Numerous high-profile Democrats and liberal organizations called for Northam to resign after a decades-old yearbook photo showed him wearing either blackface or a Ku Klux Klan hood and robe.

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