It's all Kabuki theatre outrage by Dems to get his comments about infanticide out of the press. CNN already had commentary on Northam in which they "accidently" identified him as (R), just long enough to be screen-captured and on the internet forever.
“and on the internet forever”
Annoying but can be used to advantage:
1) easy proof of fake news of cnn for any outlier reasonable unbelievers out there.
2) easy false flag to get dems riled up to get that R governor out of office.