Democrats control all three statewide offices in Virginia’s government. By their own rules, all three men occupying those positions should resign immediately.
If Northam, Fairfax, and Herring follow their party’s rules, they will all quit. It's not really debatable.
This would hand the governorship over to Kirk Cox, the Republican speaker of the House of Delegates. State Senate President Pro Tempore Steve Newman, R-Va., would become acting lieutenant governor, and the Republican-controlled legislature would pick a replacement for Herring as attorney general.
