Mark Robinson addresses attendees September 21st at the at the Fayetteville Motor Speedway. (Screengrab from Robinson’s campaign account on X.)
Lt. Governor Mark Robinson returns to the campaign trail Monday with the hopes of refocusing his faltering gubernatorial campaign on the issues.
The Republican nominee has spent the past four days denying a CNN report about lewd and offensive online posts, and by Sunday some top members of his campaign had resigned.
Last Thursday, CNN aired an investigative report that unearthed several online accounts and comments in which Robinson allegedly said, “slavery is not bad” and referred to himself as a “black NAZI” and a “perv.”
The more graphic and lewd posts dated back years before Robinson entered politics, but fellow Republicans have been quick since the CNN report to distance themselves from the NCGOP’s nominee for governor.
Robinson emphatically denied the story last week. But he notably did not share the stage with former President Donald Trump on Saturday in Wilmington. Trump who has previously called the lieutenant governor “better than Martin Luther King, Jr.” did not mention him once at the crowded rally.