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‘We are staying in this race’: behind the unraveling of Mark Robinson’s campaign in North Carolina

man wearing blue suit and red tie stands behind microphone and podium, and in front of US flag
Mark Robinson speaks before Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Asheville, North Carolina, on 14 August 2024. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP

Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s tub-thumping Republican candidate for governor, had been trying to extricate himself from problems caused by his own words long before CNN dumped a truckload of dirt on him Thursday afternoon.

Robinson has treated outrage over his ever-increasing litany of racist, sexist, homophobic and antisemitic offense as a badge of honor during the course of the campaign and his term as the state’s lieutenant governor. But CNN’s report tilled his pornographic internet history, unearthing comments that still managed the power to shock.

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