North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson speaks on stage during the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Feather Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson calls himself a “black Nazi” and made comments for years on an online porn forum saying “slavery was not bad,” CNN reported Thursday.
Robinson, the controversial lieutenant governor of a key battleground state for the president, also posted pornographic content in dozens of messages on the forum, including one related to him, according to CNN’s “KFile” account.
When reached for comment, Robinson’s campaign spokesman, Michael Lonergan, showed CNBC a video in which Republicans accuse his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Josh Stein, of Stein leaked the story to CNN.
“Let me assure you, the things you’re going to see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” the candidate said in a statement directed directly to the camera. Share on X The report was published less than an hour ago.
Before CNN broke the bombshell, Robinson faced pressure from Trump campaign staff and members to drop out of the race. carolina daily The report quoted people familiar with the matter as saying.
Robinson said in Thursday’s video that he will not drop out of the race in North Carolina, where the first batch of absentee ballots will be sent out on Friday.
latest poll Results in the race for North Carolina’s top office show Stein leading Robinson, sometimes by a wide margin. Democrats launched a new “Republicans for Stein” initiative Thursday.
Robinson, who won the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary in March, has been at the center of a series of controversies and scandals.
Recent reports include: A Sept. 3 report from North Carolina investigative outlet The Assembly said Robinson Frequenting 24-hour porn shopsIn the 1990s and early 2000s, private video booths broadcast five nights a week.
His campaign spokesman denied the report and lashed out at reporters, accusing them of “depravity.”
Robinson has also been previously accused of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, in part because of a 2018 Facebook post in which he said, “The stupid idea that Hitler disarmed millions of Jews and then marched them off to concentration camps is stupid.” Pure nonsense.
he denied is an anti-semitic.
Robinson, a staunch abortion opponent, also said during the 2024 campaign that his wife Had an abortion 30 years ago, he called it “a very difficult decision.”
Robinson was previously reported to have made comments in 2019 that abortion “is not about protecting the mother’s life… it’s about killing the child because you’re not responsible enough to put your skirt down.”
Despite these and other divisive rhetoricRobinson has received repeated praise from Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump.
In March, Trump compared Robinson to a civil rights legend martin luther king “On steroids.”
Robinson spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in mid-July.
This is a developing story, please check back for updates.
