Mark Robinson’s campaign in North Carolina fell apart for the reason, “We are staying in this race.”

Mark Robinson’s campaign in North Carolina fell apart for the reason, “We are staying in this race.”

Before CNN heaped a ton of dirt on Mark Robinson on Thursday afternoon, the tub-thumping Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina had been attempting to pull himself out of issues brought on by his own remarks.

Throughout the campaign and his tenure as the state’s lieutenant governor, Robinson has regarded indignation over his growing list of racist, sexist, homophobic, and antisemitic offenses as a badge of honor.

However, CNN’s investigation delved into his explicit online past, revealing remarks that were nevertheless shocking.

According to CNN, Robinson’s name, email address, and biographical information are linked to the “minisoldr” persona, where he referred to himself as a “Black NAZI!”, praised Hitler, used derogatory language to describe Martin Luther King Jr., expressed interest in transgender pornography, and admitted to spying on girls in a public shower when he was fourteen.

According to reports, Robinson wrote, “Slavery is not bad.” “There are those who must be slaves. I hope that slavery is reinstated. Of course, I would purchase a few.

CNN stated that some of its findings were too upsetting to discuss in public, therefore the news outlet decided not to release all of its findings.

Robinson declared he will stay in the race shortly before the report was released. Robinson would not have been able to drop out in North Carolina because the deadline had past if he hadn’t done so by midnight.

It was typical of Robinson to compare his predicament to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s “hi-tech lynching” 33 years ago due to accusations of sexual misbehavior with Anita Hill, given how the left has attempted to remove Thomas for receiving dubious largesse from billionaires.

“They won’t be allowed to do it by us. We’re going to finish this race. We want to win,” declared Robinson.

However, the nationally recognized Republican party, along with Donald Trump, had already backed off from their support, leaving the blustery contender facing an overwhelming defeat due to a combination of resurfacing remarks and subpar polling.

Robinson publicly opposes transgender rights, which contrasts sharply with his apparent interest in transgender pornography.

In 2021, calls for his resignation started when he made remarks comparing transgender education to “child abuse,” calling LGBTQ+ material “filth,” and advocating for the arrest of transgender persons for just using the wrong restroom.

Josh Stein, the attorney general of North Carolina and Robinson’s opponent, has only had to resort to a barrage of radio commercials and social media posts parodying Robinson’s own words, all the while praising the state and his platform in general and restating his support for reproductive rights.

“At a Greensboro rally supporting Kamala Harris, I, as your next governor, will veto any further restrictions on reproductive freedom,” stated Stein.

Robinson’s appeal to the right is centered on abortion policy, which may also be the reason for the Republican Party’s impending political catastrophe in North Carolina.

Robinson’s pro-life stance has been accusatory and belligerent in addition to being vehement. In a newly discovered video, he criticizes birth control and women’s empowerment from a 2022 church lecture.

He waved his palm over his crotch and asked, “Why don’t you use some of that building up of your mind and building up of empowerment to move down here, to this region down here.” “Take this under control.”

Notably, Robinson acknowledged that he regretted paying for his then-girlfriend’s abortion in the 1980s. She is now his wife.

His fierce opposition to abortion is what has kept the religious right in North Carolina on his side. In McDowell County, where Lorra Parker resides, Republicans hold a three-to-one lead. Last week, she attended Robinson’s speech.

Despite having a wide range of conservative political views, she claimed that her identity as a voter was fundamentally shaped by her views on abortion legislation.

It is not necessary for Trump to be the ideal candidate—just the superior one—despite the fact that he seemed to waver on this point during the debate. She treats Robinson with the same reasoning. She is now holding off on making a decision till the reporting works itself out.She said.

She remarked, “To be honest, I would need to hear it from a source other than CNN.” “I believe that if he is innocent of this, he ought to struggle to establish his innocence.

He has time to complete that. However, how come they only learned this now, after four years of him serving as lieutenant governor? I find that a little suspicious.

Democrats portraying their opponents as radicals can find a wealth of opposition research from Robinson’s public appearances and social media activities.

One advertisement says, “The choice couldn’t be clearer.” “Mark Robinson and Donald Trump espouse a vision characterized by hatred, violence, and division. Mark Robinson simply engages in culture battles that destroy jobs. A few weeks prior, he stated, “Some folks need killing,” from the pulpit of a church, of all places.

Shortly after emerging victorious in the Republican primary earlier this year, Robinson went into defensive mode, declining interviews with all except the most adamantly conservative media outlets and broadcasters and mostly steering clear of public appearances.

However, a plan to capitalize on Trump’s popularity and the state’s predominately conservative views had been failing as waves of bad news – including his campaign’s financial records, the mismanagement of his wife’s government-funded nonprofit, and his constant divisive remarks – swamped the field.

Since June, Robinson has not led in a poll; even before CNN’s disclosures, Joe Biden’s exit from the contest in July posed a threat to turn an otherwise close contest into a landslide.

According to the most recent Emerson College survey, he trails Stein by eight points. Thus, Robinson made a comeback a few weeks ago.

In order to test messaging that preserved as much heat as possible without burning people, he had taken cautious steps in small venues away from the attention of big-market news reporters: cayenne language, not Carolina Reaper.

Robinson entered the back room of Countryside Barbecue in cherry-red Marion, North Carolina, on September 11, the day following the Harris-Trump debate, hoping to find some favorable ground and, in the face of opposition, as much of a rhetorical makeover as he could.

His campaign address focused more on policy problems than the culture war molotov cocktails about abortion, firearms, and homosexuality that launched his career and gained him the nomination.

Examples of these issues included gas prices, teacher pay, and state taxes. However, his focus kept returning to how he was being lighted up by the media and his Democratic opponent.

Robinson remarked, “We have a guy named Josh Stein who wants to talk about everything and anything except the truth.”

“He has information about me from Facebook that he took down eight or nine years ago, but only for the first three seconds of the video.

He only played a little of it; it was something like “keep your skirt down.” The Facebook video from 2009 that Robinson was referring to, which plays nonstop throughout the state, claims that abortion “is about killing the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.”

“He removed the part where he said, ‘or keep your pants up,'” Robinson told the conservative audience last week, and it seemed to sway them.

Then he implied that the advertisement and others were false. He accused his rival of lying. He even dared the media to cover it.

Additionally, he asked for a debate—something Stein has been declining. Beneath the new veneer of respectability, there were hints of the Robinson bravado.

In the western North Carolina mountain villages, he spent nearly as much time berating the president and vice president as he did his real rival.

Robinson referred to Harris as “the same one that was right there riding shotgun with [Biden] while he was doing it” while referring to Harris’s recent appearance on TV, where she discussed her plans to fix everything.

She destroyed it, but she is unable to mend it. Since taking office, what policy has she ever supported that will address the current issues we face?

Robinson has been reversing his earlier, more vociferous demands for a complete outlawing of abortion in North Carolina.

He advocated for a six-week “heartbeat” abortion restriction measure earlier this year. He advocated for the public to “move on” from the abortion debate earlier this week.

Speaking to a group of Republican churchgoers in Marion, he stated, “Everyone may have a different opinion on that.”

“In my view, as this state’s governor, I would fight to rescue every single life in the womb, regardless of where that law resides. We will battle for life in this state for however long it takes—12 weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, or twenty weeks.

A few members of Robinson’s road team wore jerseys that said “Felon / Hillbilly,” a reference to Trump and his running mate, Ohio senator and author of Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance. The shirts convey Robinson’s racial tone.

For better or worse, he has associated himself with Trump’s demeanor and policies. Trump’s team, though, has had enough.

“In my view, as this state’s governor, I would fight to rescue every single life in the womb, regardless of where that law resides. We will battle for life in this state for however long it takes—12 weeks, six weeks, eight weeks, or twenty weeks.

A few members of Robinson’s road team wore jerseys that said “Felon / Hillbilly,” a reference to Trump and his running mate, Ohio senator and author of Hillbilly Elegy JD Vance.

The shirts convey Robinson’s racial tone. For better or worse, he has associated himself with Trump’s demeanor and policies. Trump’s team, though, has had enough.

The Trump campaign reportedly put pressure on Robinson to step down, fearing that swing voters in North Carolina who might decide the election would not just reject the lieutenant governor but the entire Republican ticket.

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This information comes from the conservative Carolina Journal. The Carolina Journal, citing unnamed campaign sources, said that the Trump campaign informed Robinson that he was no longer allowed at Trump or Vance rallies, and that the Stein campaign had leaked the information to CNN.

Robinson has not been brought up by Trump in the past week. On Wednesday, Vance staged his first rally by himself in North Carolina. Robinson was nowhere to be seen. Robinson’s office declared that he had contracted Covid-19.

In remarks to NBC, Trump campaign officials refuted claims that they had been putting pressure on Robinson to withdraw from the race.

The moment the CNN article ran, the Stein campaign issued a curt statement. The campaign stated, “North Carolinians already know Mark Robinson is completely unfit to be governor.”

“Josh is still committed to winning this campaign so that we can work together to create a more secure and resilient North Carolina for all.”

On the other hand, the Harris campaign has happily shared footage of Trump complimenting Robinson. Robinson was described by Trump as “Martin Luther King Jr. on steroids.”

Robinson declared, “I’m not in the KKK,” in remarks made while using the alias “minisoldr.” Black people cannot join. “I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon if I was a member of the Klan.”