On Friday, Feb. 1, Northam said he was in the Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook photo, which showed one man wearing blackface and another man wearing Ku Klux Klan garb. But the next day, he said he was sure he was not in the photo. He said he had dressed in blackface at another point in 1984 to play Michael Jackson in a dance contest, and in 2017 an aide helped him understand that it was hurtful to African-Americans.

Northam’s scandal was followed in a surreal week by two sexual assault allegations against Fairfax, which the lieutenant governor denies, and an admission from Attorney General Mark Herring — who had called on Northam to resign over his blackface scandal — that he wore blackface at a college party to portray a rapper.

While virtually every major elected Democrat in Virginia, including Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, called for Northam to resign, they did not call for Herring to resign. Democrats’ calls for Fairfax to resign multiplied quickly Friday after a second woman came forward to accuse him of sexual assault.