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Showing Original Post only (View all)Progressive Group Calls Ralph Northam Racist, Sparking Intra-Party Feud Ahead Of Big Election [View all]
Source: Huffington Post
A major national progressive group on Thursday denounced Ralph Northam, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, as gutless and racist for his remarks on immigration ― plunging Democrats into a bitter internecine squabble ahead of statewide elections on Tuesday.
In a Wednesday interview with Norfolk, Virginia, TV news channel WAVY, Northam said he would sign a bill banning so-called sanctuary cities, or municipalities that limit their cooperation with federal immigration authorities, should any Virginia locality pursue that status in the future.
Northams opponent, Republican Ed Gillespie, has run a series of misleading ads attacking Northam for a vote as lieutenant governor blocking a bill that would have preemptively banned municipalities from adopting these limits ― though Gillespie himself has acknowledged that no sanctuary cities exist in Virginia as of yet.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday night after an event with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, Northam claimed that he simply opposed preemptively banning sanctuary cities, and that his comments to WAVY were what Ive been saying all along.
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