The fact that Carolina Journal published this is pretty darn consequential, considering that Carolina Journal represents the Art Pope/Civitas machine.
North Carolina Republicans are bracing Thursday morning as word spreads about a damning news story looming regarding Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.
Sources with direct knowledge have spoken with Carolina Journal on the condition of anonymity and said that Robinson is under pressure from staff and members of the Trump campaign to withdraw from the governor’s race due to the nature of the story, which they say involves activity on adult websites in 2000s.
According to sources, Robinson has resisted withdrawing and privately denies the story.
In an email to Carolina Journal shortly after this story posted, Michael Lonergan, communications director for the Mark Robinson for Governor campaign wrote, “Whomever your sources are here, it is complete fiction.”
Thursday evening is the state deadline to withdraw from the race. The deadline to remove Robinson’s name from the ballot already has passed. There are just four weeks to go until early voting, and absentee ballots are due to go in the mail Friday.
According to the sources, the campaign of Attorney General Josh Stein, Robinson’s opponent in the race for North Carolina’s Executive Mansion, leaked the story to CNN and local Raleigh news outlet, WRAL. It is expected to hit airwaves later on Thursday.
Also according to the anonymous source, earlier this week leaders in the Trump campaign privately told Robinson that he was not welcome at rallies for Trump or vice presidential candidate JD Vance. He was slated to speak at the Vance appearance on Wednesday, but his office announced that Robinson had tested positive for COVID.
"Whomever your sources are here, it is complete fiction.” Actually that is NOT accurate at all, as I doubt even fiction writers could make this stuff up! Robinson literally calling himself a Black Nazi, a perv. Calling for the return of slavery?? And if you think that's weird, it gets much worse! Just imagine being deemed too EXTREME to attend a Trump rally, and there you have the NC GOP's candidate for governor. Did someone challenge the GOP to try and outdo SNL writers with their campaign this year? I'd say they are doing a brilliant job!!!
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ReplyDeleteMark Robinson was only doing his best to copy the degenerate aspects of Trumpism. Being a token actor on the fringe his best effort was pitiful as expected. And if we could know Old Hound Dog we would understand that he has plenty in common with Mark Robinson. Fascist politics now requires candidates that are perverted and co-opted , just blackmailed slime balls that are easy for Oligarchs to use as Boogermen and obedient clowns. And because our Plutocracy is so polluted and corrupted things are not much better for NeoCon Democrats.
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