Trump-Backed Candidate Mark Robinson Preempts Salacious Story By Promising to Stay In Race, Dismissing It as ‘High-Tech Lynching’
North Carolina Lieutenant Governor and Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson preempted a highly-anticipated and damaging story on Thursday by vowing to stay in the race and dismissing it as a “high-tech lynching.”
“Hey, guys. Lieutenant Governor Robinson and your Republican nominee for governor as well, of course. Well guys, the news media is at it again; my opponent is at it again,” began Robinson. “You all have seen half-truths and outright lies of Josh Stein on these ads over and over again. And now a story leak, a story leaked by him to CNN is appearing now. Let me reassure you the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words, you know my character, and you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before.”
He continued:
Folks, this race right now, our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with, to salacious tabloid trash. We cannot allow that to happen. And folks, we’ve seen this type of stuff in the past as well. Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of a high-tech lynching. Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is too by a man who refuses to stand on stage and debate me about the real issues that face you. Instead, they want to focus on salacious tabloid lies. We’re not going to let them do that. We are staying in this race. We are in it to win it. And we know that with your help, we will. God bless you and we will see you where? On the campaign trail.
I wanted to take a minute to address the latest outrageous lies coming from my opponent’s dishonest campaign: #ncgov #ncpol pic.twitter.com/RtteVUiozr
— Mark Robinson (@markrobinsonNC) September 19, 2024
According to The Carolina Journal, “Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race due to the nature of the story, which they say involves activity on adult websites in 2000s.”
The candidate has previously denied the Holocaust, called Michelle Obama a man, Barack Obama a “top-ranking demon,” and advance other anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. He was endorsed by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump earlier this year, who described him as “Martin Luther King [Jr.] on steroids.”
