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• Virginia: sexual assault allegations detailed against governor’s deputy – live

The political crisis in Virginia escalated dramatically on Wednesday when the state’s attorney general confessed to putting on blackface in the 1980s and a woman went public with detailed allegations of sexual assault against the lieutenant governor.

With Governor Ralph Northam’s career already hanging by a thread over a racist photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook, the day’s developments threatened to take down Virginia’s top three elected officials, all of them Democrats.

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