Biggest news on the battleground state map this week: Election experts Larry Sabato The North Carolina gubernatorial race has moved from “Dem-leaning” to “Democrat-leaning” following a series of embarrassing revelations about Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, the unsuccessful Republican candidate in this election.
Sabato is being generous. At this point, the Democrats are likely to win.
That's why Robinson should do the right thing and end his campaign for governor after his negligence in withdrawing before Thursday night's deadline.
CNN's latest revelations, in which Robinson reportedly described himself as a “black Nazi,” defended slavery as “not bad” because “some people need to be slaves,” and delighted in “shemale and young girl porn,” are particularly horrifying in these depraved times in American politics, but this isn't the first time we've heard disqualifying details about Robinson's sordid tastes.
In other words, given what was known about Robinson before Thursday's fatal cable news blow, he was already a threat to “depress voter turnout.”
As The Post reported in March, Robinson has already made comments that, in another political era, would have ended his campaign.
“I definitely want to go back to an America where women couldn't vote,” Robinson told a group of Republican women lawmakers, all of whom have the right to vote and do.
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Robinson has made harsh, racist comments, misgendering Michelle Obama, calling gays a “Satanic cult,” calling the Black Panther movie “trash… made just to take your money out of Schwarze's pockets,” and using a Yiddish insult against black people. He also complained that African-Americans were “getting excited about a fictional 'hero' created by an agnostic Jew and made into a movie by a Satan-worshipping Marxist,” according to a report by the Daily Dot News. Reported.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg of reported anti-Semitism.
He is similar review He criticized the 1977 miniseries “Roots,” calling it “Hollywood trash that depicts the ignorance and cruelty of the goyim and the powerlessness and weakness of the Schwarzes.”
And, as expected, he Official Holocaust DeniersHe used the word “bullshit” to describe the Nazi genocide.
He also Jewish banker “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.”
Any one of these statements would have been grounds for disqualification in any election a few decades ago, especially one against a Jewish candidate (North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein).
Robinson's full comments now disqualify him, but with the backing of the Trump campaign and the North Carolina Republican Party, he plans to remain in the race.
The deadline to withdraw came after CNN broke the latest revelations, but Robinson argued for staying in. The particularly unfounded argument for this is that the ballots had already been printed.
A Trumpworld source has denied reports that the former president wanted the man he once called “Martin Luther King on steroids” to withdraw from the race, saying it's “not accurate” to say Donald Trump or his campaign “played any role in the request to withdraw.”
Then on Thursday night, just as the Jets game was about to begin at MetLife, the North Carolina Republicans tried to punt.
The party accused “the left” of “attempting to demonize Mr Robinson with personal attacks” and claimed the accusations were intended to distract from “policy debates” over issues such as the “open borders” policy promulgated by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaking of Harris, she has a new ad linking Trump to Robinson, which people will be seeing on “Wheel of Fortune” and (yes, that's right) “Jeopardy!” until Election Day.
“Trump's praise for Robinson is interwoven with Robinson's own extreme statements about abortion, including her support for a total ban on abortion with no exceptions to protect women's lives,” the campaign said.
It also shows that unless Robinson withdraws from the campaign, the rest of his dismal campaign will consist of little more than in-kind donations to Harris, Tim Walz and the Democratic National Committee.
Trump holds a 0.1% lead in the Tar Heel State, according to the FiveThirtyEight average, and while polls may simply be a snapshot in time, there's a plethora of surveys currently suggesting a close race.
Trump can win North Carolina without Robinson's interference, but that won't happen if he's hobbled by a totally discredited candidate.
Mark Robinson needs to pay the former president and the Republican Party back. He needs to go fast.
