Mark Robinson returned to the campaign trail on Monday in North Carolinaluckywin, insisting that he will remain in the governor’s race even after most of his staff resigned following a CNN report linking him to numerous disturbing comments on a pornographic website.
Wearing his signature bright red shirt and jeans, Mr. Robinson, the state’s Republican lieutenant governor, stood outside a bakery in Wilkesboro, N.C., and denounced the CNN article. Among other things, it said that Mr. Robinson had written on a porn site years ago that he was a “black NAZI,” that he enjoyed watching transgender pornography and that “slavery is not bad.”
Donald J. Trump did not mention Mr. Robinson once at a campaign event in Wilmington, N.C., on Saturday, and several Trump fans who attended said they understood why it was necessary to distance Mr. Trump from Mr. Robinson. The former president endorsed Mr. Robinson in March and held a fund-raiser for him at his home in Palm Beach, Fla., last year.
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