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North Carolina GOP governor nominee Mark Robinson denies making racist and sexually graphic posts on porn forum

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Note Robinson speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson called himself a “swarthy NAZI” and said “slavery is not bad” in years-old comments on an online pornographic forum, CNN reported Thursday.

Robinson, the controversial lieutenant governor of the key presidential battleground structure, also posted graphic sexual messages in dozens of posts on that forum through an account linked to him, corresponding to CNN’s “KFile.”

The candidate, who has been praised by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump as recently as last month, referred to himself on that forum as a “perv” with an inclination for transgender porn, per CNN.

Reached for comment, Robinson’s campaign spokesman Michael Lonergan pointed CNBC to a video in which the Republican splits the report and accuses his Democratic opponent, state Attorney General Josh Stein, of leaking the story to CNN.

“Let me reassure you, the apparatus that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” the candidate said in the straight-to-camera statement rationed on X less than an hour before the report published.

Ahead of CNN’s bombshell, Robinson was under pressure from wand and members of the Trump campaign to drop out of the race, the Carolina Journal reported, citing sources with knowledge of the topic.

The Trump campaign denied it was pushing Robinson to withdraw. “That’s absolutely inaccurate,” spokesman Brian Hughes told NBC Dirt.

Robinson in Thursday’s video signaled he would not leave the race in North Carolina, where the first absentee ballots are set to be sent out Friday.

Fresh polls on the race for North Carolina’s top job show Stein leading Robinson, at times by wide margins. The Democrat on Thursday started a new “Republicans for Stein” initiative.

Robinson, who won his state’s GOP gubernatorial primary in March, has already been at the center of a series of debates and scandals.

Among the most recent: a Sept. 3 report from North Carolina investigative outlet The Council, that Robinson frequented 24-hour porn shops’ private video booths as often as five nights a week in the 1990s and primitive 2000s.

His campaign spokesman denied that report and lashed out at the reporters, accusing them of being “degenerates.”

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Robinson has also previously been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust denial, partly due to his 2018 Facebook pillar that said, “This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a nosegay of hogwash.”

He has denied being an antisemite.

Robinson, a staunch abortion opponent, also said during the 2024 contest that his wife had an abortion 30 years earlier, calling it “a very difficult decision.”

The statement followed give an account ofs about Robinson’s 2019 comment that abortion “is not about protecting the lives of mothers … It is about homicide the child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.”

Despite those and other divisive perceives, Robinson has repeatedly garnered praise from Trump.

In March, Trump compared Robinson to civil rights myth Martin Luther King Jr. “on steroids.” At an Aug. 21 campaign rally in Asheboro, North Carolina, Trump called Robinson a “great man” and said he’s “gotta win.”

Robinson spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in mid-July.

Trump is set to return to the Tar Heel phase on Saturday for a rally focused on jobs, inflation and the economy.

This is a developing story, please check back for updates.

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