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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Adam Gabbatt

Fears grow in North Carolina as ultra-extreme Republican eyes governor’s mansion

North Carolina lt governor Mark Robinson arrives for a rally where he announced his candidacy for governor, on 22 April 2023, in Elon.
Mark Robinson at rally where he announced his candidacy for North Carolina governor on 22 April in Elon. Photograph: Robert Willett/AP

To Mark Robinson, gay and transgender people are “filth”, homosexuality is an abominable sin, and the transgender movement is “demonic” and “full of the spirit of the antichrist”.

Muslim Americans, meanwhile, are invaders, and Robinson is not afraid to dabble in antisemitism: in his mind an international cabal of Jewish financiers make up a modern-day “four horsemen of the apocalypse”, who rule the banks in “every single country”.

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