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Robinson has a documented history of making racist and bigoted remarks about Jewish people, women and the LGBTQ+ community
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The allegations were salacious. The fallout, immediate.
It’s been just days since CNN published a deeply reported story detailing the wildly offensive comments allegedly left on an adult website’s message board by North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson. In that short time, the state’s already-contentious 2024 governor’s race has been upended, as strategists from both parties scramble to recalibrate with less than two months until election day. Robinson, currently serving as North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor, has denied the allegations that he called himself a “black Nazi” who endorsed slavery, describing CNN’s report as “tabloid trash” while vowing to remain in the race against Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein.
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