Virginia Governor Calls for Urgent Staff Meeting, ABC 7 Says

  • Staff meeting includes Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax
  • White House hopefuls, lawmakers united that governor must go

Ralph Northam at the Governor’s mansion on Feb. 2.

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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, who’s facing calls from leading Democrats to resign over a racist photo from a 1984 medical school yearbook, has called for an “urgent meeting” with his top-level staff, the Washington affiliate of ABC News reported.

The staff in the meeting include Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax, ABC 7 News reported, without saying where it got the information. NBC News’s local affiliate said the meeting started at 6 p.m. local time.