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Mark Robinson’s Latest Scandal Has Republicans Fearing for the Rest of the Ballot

Democrats are already highlighting all the times other Republican candidates praised Robinson.

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, Republicans’ candidate for governor, has been lagging in the polls against Democrat Josh Stein. Matt Rourke/AP

Somehow, someway, the North Carolina GOP’s nominee for governor, Mark Robinson, is facing yet another slew of damning allegations, frustrating Republicans in the state and even spurring calls for him to drop out of the race.

The allegations, ultimately detailed in a thorough CNN investigation, began trickling onto social media Thursday morning amid reporting that those in Robinson and Donald Trump’s orbit wanted to see him out of the race.

By the time CNN had published its report, a compilation of sexually explicit and racist comments that Robinson allegedly posted on a porn site between 2008 to 2012, it was clear Republicans in the state could see there would be blowback.