Robinson won't appear at Trump's North Carolina rally after report on online posts, AP sources say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 6:10 PM EDT, September 20, 2024


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will not appear at former President Donald Trump ’s rally on Saturday in the battleground state following a CNN report about Robinson’s alleged disturbing online posts, an absence that illustrates the liability the gubernatorial candidate poses for Trump and downballot GOP candidates.

Robinson is not expected to attend the event in Wilmington, according to a person on the Trump campaign and a second person familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning.

Robinson has been a frequent presence at Trump’s North Carolina campaign stops. The Republican nominee has referred to Robinson, who is Black, as “Martin Luther King on steroids” and long praised him. But in the wake of Thursday’s CNN report, the Trump campaign issued a statement that didn’t mention Robinson and instead spoke generally about how North Carolina was key to the campaign’s efforts.

Robinson’s campaign didn’t respond to a text Friday seeking confirmation on his Saturday plans. The deadline in state law for Robinson to withdraw as the Republican candidate for governor passed late Thursday. State Republican leaders could have picked a replacement had a withdrawal occurred.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-governor-mark-robinson-trump-kamala-harris-cooper-cnn-stein-c7ee5c23f554f3708619d6b68e208b94

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LOL

[Ocelot II]

1. Trump on Robinson, after yesterday:

"Mark Robinson? I don't know him. I meet a lot of people. He might have brought coffee but I don't remember him."

[C0RI0LANUS]

18. "He might have brought me coffee..."

"See? Here he is asking me how I like my coffee."


Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is pictured alongside former President Donald Trump at a rally in Selma, NC, on 9 April 2022. Trump endorsed Robinson favorably. Photo: Allison Joyce

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. TFG will run away from this asshole

[AZ8theist]

3. He can't. Because:

[FakeNoose]

4. "Martin Luther King on steroids"? Really?! That's what Chump calls him?

No wonder the North Carolina Black folks hate him!

Whites should hate him too, but for other reasons.

[Montauk6]

8. I guess this is what happens when you have Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan on speed dial

[magicarpet]

5. If Robinson showed up at trDUMP's rally,...

.... dressed in his formal head to toe Nazi regalia with swastika arm bands on each arm.

trDUMP would welcome Robinson up on the stage during the the rally. He could pace up and down the length of the stage giving - click heels - Nazi salutes to the audience during the whole rally.

[turbinetree]

6. Really..............trump is a no show............

[riversedge]

7. Got plans for Saturday Mr Robinson??

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

9. Coo coo ca choo, Mister Robinson,

Trumpy hates you more than you will know……whoa whoa whoa.

[Abolishinist]

13. Sitting on a sofa on a Sunday afternoon

Which the former's VP is about to felate,
Laugh about it, shout about it
When you've got to choose
Every way you look at this, you lose

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

17. Nicely done!

Good to see a post from another Simon & Garfunkel fan.

[blue sky at night]

10. OMG...wish this guy would just go away...

can't stand this much longer...

[ificandream]

21. It's too late for him to withdraw, which is actually a good thing for Democrats.

The longer he hangs around, the more damage he does to Trump and the rest of the GOP goons.

[SunSeeker]

11. Trump: "Mark who?" nt

[TBF]

12. Even Trump finds him offensive - that's a new low bar. nt

[Figarosmom]

14. Like they arent 2 of a kind. Nt

[Jack Valentino]

15. I had predicted that Robinson would be a drag on the Trump candidacy in N.Carolina---

but the Robinson porno posts certainly weren't on my Bingo card! This is beyond my wildest imagination, or anyone else's...

I watched a video which went into more detail than CNN did, about what was in Robinson's posts, and it was pretty horrific--- way too detailed posts about him having a sex affair with his sister-in-law, and things having to do with urine and her backside--- that's as far as I'll go.... If you thought the quotes from CNN were bad, they were nothing compared to the sexually-explicit posts.

IMHO, some of that info ought to be forwarded to any right-wing preachers who are backing Robinson-- they ought not to be left in the dark about the kind of person they are supporting.

[BumRushDaShow]

16. It's the same kind of dynamic that happened in GA in 2020

with Herschel Walker (in his Senate race vs Raphael Warnock), where the lunatic fringe candidate in a "statewide race", dragged the top of the ticket down.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

29. I have a feeling Mark will deliver NC to us

Guess the Rethuglicuns forgot to vett him background thoroughly, just like how the NY Democratic party didn't do enough oppo on George Santos.

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Well I think in this case

you have to remember that Robinson WAS elected Lt. Governor, so the sleepy voters in NC who didn't bother to come out to vote in that race, allowed for that to happen - even with the effort to keep Cooper in there. I guess maybe it was intended to be some sort of "balance".

Well let's hope some learned their lesson.

Here in PA, the Lt. Governor runs separately from the Governor in the primary but then they become running mates in the general election.

[Jack Valentino]

31. Yes, somewhat--- but Walker was a prize

compared with THIS guy!!!!

Whatever happened to good ole Herschel, anyway? lol

I think Robinson is headed for the same kind of political oblivion after he leaves his office--
Probably he'll go back to ordering pizzas to the local dollar-porn movie booth----
(EWWWWWW!)

[BumRushDaShow]

32. He'll end up joining

the "JC (Jim Crow) Crew" consisting of Donalds, Scott, & Carson. Sadly, they don't have 9-9-9 around anymore to join them though.

[Jack Valentino]

33. Maybe he can be a guest on "DonOLD's World" !

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3310904

[BumRushDaShow]

34. IOW

a new version of "The Apprentice" except "The Apprentice: DonOLD's World".

[Jack Valentino]

35. Actually I was thinking of a very poor version of "Wayne's World"

since DonOLD can't play the guitar, a fact he recently made public... lol

[azureblue]

19. we need people to go there

and chant, "We Want Mark!"

[ificandream]

20. I hope Robinson drags Trump and the down ballot candidates down with him.

What a disgusting human being to run for office, let alone be a politician. Vivid illustration of what the GOP has become.

[Paladin]

22. Think how toxic you must be for trump to treat you this way.

I hope Robinson and his sick comments---along with trump's blowjob quotes---appear in a huge number of Kamala ads, coast-to-coast, every day until the election.

[Evolve Dammit]

23. Let's get the porno black nazi, people need killing front and center

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Seems like HE is helping to put himself "front and center"

(will have to see how long he'll let them muzzle him )

[Evolve Dammit]

25. So far his outrageousness is not being elevated to the level it would be were he a Dem?

[BumRushDaShow]

26. I look through a couple dozen news sites during the day

and his vile comments have been pretty much a big news focus on most of them.

I think its mainly because he is a freak and that helps them get the clicks and eyeballs. I would put it on a similar level to how they covered Herschel Walker when he was running for Senate in GA except Robinson is like Walker on steroids!

[Traildogbob]

27. Trump will bring in

Uncle Tim Scott as his token Black.

[BumRushDaShow]

28. For some reason

Scott seems to have disappeared... as has Byron Donalds.