Meet the guy who'll probably kick Mark Robinson's ass in North Carolina
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is getting badly drubbed in the polls in his bid for governor of the Tar Heel State. The Republican nominee’s paltry polling follows revelations that he called himself a "Black Nazi,” said that "slavery is not bad," declared that civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. was "worse than a maggot," and called himself a "perv," among other disturbing and sexually explicit comments Robinson posted on a porn website forum.
A number of polls have Robinson losing to Democratic nominee Josh Stein by double digits, a massive margin in a state that is considered a toss-up at the presidential level.
In fact, Robinson is doing so badly that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump tried to pull an "I don't know her" on the campaign trail on Monday and refused to say whether North Carolinians should still support Robinson.
“I’m not familiar with the state of the race right now. I haven’t seen it,” Trump said upon leaving an event in North Carolina, where he defended his rhetoric attacking Federal Emergency Management Agency personnel working to help local residents dig out and rebuild after Hurricane Helene decimated large swaths of the western portion of the state. FEMA workers have faced violent threats after Trump and his supporters spread misinformation about their response.
That marked lack of enthusiasm is an about-face for Trump, who previously backed Robinson’s bid and embraced him at campaign rallies in the state. In March, Trump even called the lieutenant governor “Martin Luther King on steroids.”
“I think you’re better than Martin Luther King,” Trump told Robinson on stage at an event in March. “I think you are Martin Luther King times two.”
With Robinson's bid looking dead on arrival, here's a look at North Carolina's likely next governor, Josh Stein.