Michael Ramirez, Las Vegas Review Journal
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GOP candidate for governor in North Carolina, Mark Robinson, vows to stay in race despite shocking revelations
Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s sitting Lieutenant Governor, was a controversial, extremist candidate when he was nominated as the GOP candidate for North Carolina governor. He had a history of making misogynistic, incendiary statements that should have disqualified him from holding any public office. See Newsweek, Mark Robinson: Full List of North Carolina Candidate's Controversies. Robinson has described the Holocaust as “hogwash,” has called Muslims “invaders,” has mocked school shooting survivors, and has been hostile to LGBTQ people, especially transgender people.
Despite his past controversies, Republicans nominated Robinson as their candidate for governor. Democrats nominated Josh Stein, who is currently leading in the polls.
On Thursday, CNN released a devastating report titled, Mark Robinson, NC GOP nominee for governor, called himself a ‘black NAZI!,’ supported slavery in past comments made on porn forum.
This deeply researched article begins as follows:
Mark Robinson, the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery, a CNN KFile investigation found. Despite a recent history of anti-transgender rhetoric, Robinson said he enjoyed watching transgender pornography, a review of archived messages found in which he also referred to himself as a “perv.” The comments, which Robinson denies making, predate his entry into politics and current stint as North Carolina’s lieutenant governor. They were made under a username that CNN was able to identify as Robinson by matching a litany of biographical details and a shared email address between the two.
It gets worse from there, folks.
Robinson has denied that he made the comments and suggested that they were created by hackers.
The North Carolina GOP released a statement on Thursday backing Robinson, claiming the allegations are false. Trump has previously endorsed Robinson, saying that Robinson is
Martin Luther King on steroids. I told that to Mark. I said, ‘I think you’re better than Martin Luther King. I think you are Martin Luther King times two.
As of Friday, September 20, it is too late for Robinson to drop out of the race.
This newest controversy is bad news for Trump and good news for all Democrats on the ballot in North Carolina in November. If Kamala Harris can beat Trump in North Carolina, there is almost no path to victory for Trump. As Mitch McConnell famously said, Republicans have a “candidate quality” problem. And that problem starts at the top.
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