Northam, who was granted by large measure because of record African-American turnout, had offered himself as the antithesis to Confederate monument-lover and longtime D.C. bagman Ed Gillespie, whose racist and xenophobic 2017 campaigning rhetoric was reminiscent of those campaigns ran by Lee Atwater.
Northam, who was elected in large because of record African-American turnout, had offered himself as the antithesis to Confederate monument-lover and longtime D.C. bagman Ed Gillespie, whose racist and xenophobic 2017 campaign rhetoric was reminiscent of those campaigns run by Lee Atwater.