Trump ally refuses to leave governor's race after 'Black Nazi' comments emerge on porn site

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20 September 2024 at 1:53 am·1-min read

A Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina has rejected calls to drop out of the race after a report that he made controversial comments about slavery and called himself a 'Black Nazi' on a porn website more than a decade ago.

North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor promised to stay in the race on Thursday after CNN reported that he once called himself a "black NAZI!" and proposed bringing back slavery in comments posted on a pornography website.

Mark Robinson, an African American who denied making the comments, is North Carolina's lieutenant governor and running for governor in the Nov. 5 election against Democratic candidate Josh Stein, the state's attorney general.

North Carolina's gubernatorial campaign has implications for the presidential contest. The fortunes of high-profile candidates there could affect partisan turnout or enthusiasm in one of the closely divided battleground states that might swing the election between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump.

Robinson, 56, who was endorsed by Trump, has a history of inflammatory comments and issued a video denial on social media even before the CNN story published.

"Let me reassure you the things that you will see in that story - those are not the words of Mark Robinson," the candidate said, calling the CNN report "salacious tabloid lies."

"We are staying in this race," Robinson said.

(Reuters)

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