Mark Robinson Facing Pressure to Drop Out of NC Governor Race
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Facing Pressure To Drop Out of NC Gubernatorial Race
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Could NC’s Lt. Governor Mark Robinson drop out of the race for governor, less than 50 days before the 2024 election? It is a possibility.
People familiar with the matter told WRAL on Thursday (Sept. 19) that the Republican candidate is facing pressure from members of his own party to suspend his campaign.
According to local news outlets, the pressure comes as CNN is currently preparing a story about newly unearthed comments made by Robinson. Business NC reported that it would focus on antisemitic remarks, while the conservative website Carolina Journal said that the focus would be on activity on adult websites in the 2000s.
CNN is expected to go live with the story as soon as Thursday.
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In a text message to WRAL, Robinson’s campaign spokesman, Mike Lonergan, denounced the possibility of Robinson dropping out. “It is absolute fiction,” he wrote. Lonergan declined to further comment on the possible CNN story.
Robinson has maintained strong support from loyal GOP voters, despite his long history of making incendiary comments about women, Jews, Muslims, the LGBTQ+ community, and others. However, the Trump-endorsed candidate has trailed behind his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Josh Stein, by a wide margin.
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According to a recent WRAL News Poll released this month, 51% of likely voters support Stein. Meanwhile, only 37% support Robinson.
Political analysts and insiders say that Robinson’s lag in the polls could hurt Donald Trump’s chances of carrying North Carolina in the presidential race. In the same WRAL poll, Trump trails the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, by three points.
Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, spoke of the possibility in an Aug. 17 interview on News Nation:
Trump is being weighed down by a very unpopular Republican candidate for governor. So Trump is going to have some difficulty in this state, in North Carolina, that he may not have in others.
In response, Robinson rejected the analysis in September, saying, “I don’t believe that at all.”
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Facing Pressure To Drop Out of NC Gubernatorial Race was originally published on foxync.com
