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    What Virginia scandal could say about Democrats’ future

    Feb 08, 2019 4 minutes

    Joshua Cole has fond memories of Gov. Ralph Northam (D) of Virginia.

    Back in 2016, when Mr. Cole was an assistant at the statehouse clerk’s office and Mr. Northam was a state senator, Northam “remembered my name immediately,” Cole says. “He would talk to me every day.”

    A year later, when Cole decided to run for a seat in the Virginia House of Delegates, he was happy to support Northam′s own campaign for governor by knocking on doors, rallying supporters, and actually voting for Northam. Though he lost his own race, Cole was thrilled when Northam was elected governor.

    Now Cole is president of the Stafford County branch of the NAACP, and he says he doesn’t believe

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