North Carolina GOP governor nominee Mark Robinson under fire for comments about women losing voting rights

Newly elected Republican candidate for North Carolina governor sworn in The comments resurfaced on Tuesday and drew criticism. She said she would “absolutely” want to go back to the days when women couldn’t vote.

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson tried to make a vague point about Republicans fighting for “social change” at a March 2020 event, when he recalled the era of women’s suffrage and Jim Crow. It seemed like that.

“I absolutely want to go back to an America where women couldn’t vote. Do you want to know why?” Robinson asked a gathering of Republican women.

“Because back then there were people fighting for real social change. And they were called Republicans. And that’s why women can vote today.”

Robinson also spoke about the era of the Jim Crow South, stressing that Republicans at the time were “fighting to end it.”

“That’s the America we want back,” he said. “We want to restore America to the Republican Party and to the principles and true ideals of freedom.”

Robinson, who worked in a furniture factory before becoming lieutenant governor, secured the Republican gubernatorial nomination on Super Tuesday.

The candidate has attracted attention in the past for controversial comments such as: disrespect the LGBT communitylabeling A man named Michelle Obamaspreading wild conspiracy theories about the new coronavirus, and spouting anti-Semitic tropes.

In 2014, he quoted Hitler on Facebook and later defended the move.

“When you quote Hitler, you support Hitler,” he said in a speech in July. “I think all the American history books support Hitler now. They all quote him.”

Republican candidates are strong Support from former President Donald Trumpcalled the candidate “Martin Luther King on steroids.”