The Rats can’t claim POTUS is racist with Northam in office. That is why they want him to go.
True, however now that the news is out on Fairfax, the dems face having to either remove him as well or “not believe her”. They can’t throw down that card either with Fairfax holding office. And now that his accuser has retained Blasey-Ford’s legal team, that looks to be shaping up as a drawn-out affair. That leaves 3 options: remove Northam/leave Fairfax (me too backlash), remove Northam/call for Fairfax to resign (optical disaster), Leave Northam, cite his classmate stating it wasn’t him, and allow the media to cover and just ride it out until the next Mueller indictment or something comes along.
I got to admit. I thought this was a play by the Dems to get him out of office as he had become a liability with his statements on infanticide, but since then we have seen a dem block a bill aimed directly at infanticide.