RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – As early voting sites opened Thursday in North Carolina ahead of the March 5 primary, Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign urged supporters to find their polling places.
But at a campaign event in Wake County in December, Robinson was highly critical of the amount of time available to vote in the state as “outrageous” and suggested it should only be available to certain people. Polling has shown Robinson to lead the GOP field to be his party’s nominee in the race for governor this year.
In an audio clip obtained by CBS 17, Robinson told supporters there should be “one day to vote. Early voting should be left to those who desperately need it: the infirmed, the ill, the handicapped.”
He also brought up Taylor Swift.
“You know how you do it? You get up and you go vote. Same way you got up and went stood in line for 15-and-a-half hours for Trailer Shift concert tickets, the same way you could stand in that line,” he said. Robinson has referred to Swift as “Trailer Shift” on social media.