If Mark Robinson Is Committed To An Insane Asylum Which Weirdo Will The GOP Nominate For Governor?

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Before the latest Mark Robinson scandal broke on CNN Thursday, every single North Carolina poll showed Josh Stein beating him. I suspect a lot of voters in the Tar Heel State are wondering how this guy was ever elected Lt. Governor in the first place. Not even Elon Musk has defended him (yet). Trump wants him to drop out of the race, although he said he wouldn’t because… checking notes: “There are people who are counting on us to win this race.” Trump’s not among them; his political team has reached out to Robinson and told them to pack it in and get out now. It’s already too late to get his name off the ballot. And last night was the last time he could withdraw as a candidate.

A longtime porn addict, Robinson was a habitué of myriad online sex sites. And a noisy habitué at that. Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck reported that aside from all the porn, Robinson advocated reinstating slavery and boasted that he was a “Black Nazi” (and “a perv”). Watching transgender sex was—is?— his thing.

Many of Robinson’s comments were gratuitously sexual and lewd in nature. They were made between 2008 and 2012 on “Nude Africa,” a pornographic website that includes a message board. The comments were made under the username minisoldr, a moniker Robinson used frequently online.

Robinson listed his full name on his profile for Nude Africa, as well as an email address he used on numerous websites across the internet for decades.

CNN is reporting only a small portion of Robinson’s comments on the website given their graphic nature… CNN is not publishing the graphic sexual details of Robinson’s story.

…In an interview with CNN on Thursday, Robinson repeatedly denied that he made the comments on Nude Africa.

“This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything that is characteristic of me,” Robinson said. Presented with the litany of evidence connecting him with the minisoldr user name on Nude Africa, Robinson said, “I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies.”

CNN first reached out to Robinson Tuesday morning with evidence connecting him to the comments on Nude Africa. It took his campaign two days to respond and issue a denial.

During his interview with CNN, Robinson repeatedly said the issues that faced North Carolinians were more important than what he called “tabloid trash,” and he steered the conversation toward attacking his opponent in the race, Democrat Josh Stein, the state’s attorney general.

“We are not getting out of this race. There are people who are counting on us to win this race,” Robinson said.

… In another thread, commenters considered whether to believe the story of a woman who said she was raped by her taxi driver while intoxicated. In response, Robinson wrote, “and the moral of this story….. Don’t fuck a white bitch!”

Robinson, who would become North Carolina’s first Black governor if elected, also repeatedly maligned civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., attacking him in such intense terms that a user accused him of being a white supremacist.

“Get that fucking commie bastard off the National Mall!,” Robinson wrote about the dedication of the memorial to King in Washington, DC, by then-President Barack Obama.

“I’m not in the KKK. They don’t let blacks join. If I was in the KKK I would have called him Martin Lucifer Koon!” Robinson responded.

CNN’s reporting on Robinson’s comments comes a few weeks after The Assembly, a North Carolina digital publication, reported that Robinson frequented local video pornography shops in the 1990s and 2000s. The story cited six people who interacted and saw him frequent the stores in Greensboro, North Carolina. A spokesperson for Robinson called the story false and a “complete fiction.”

Despite earning the full endorsement of former President Donald Trump and the North Carolina Republican Party, Robinson faces an uphill battle in the race for governor against Stein.

…Writing in a forum discussing Black Republicans in October 2010, Robinson stated unprovoked: “I’m a black NAZI!”

That same month, Robinson wrote in another post that he supported the return of slavery.

“Slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it (slavery) back. I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote.

In March 2012, Robinson wrote that he preferred the former leader of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler over the leadership in Washington during the administration of Barack Obama.

“I’d take Hitler over any of the shit that’s in Washington right now!” he wrote.

Robinson’s comments on Nude Africa often frequently contained derogatory and racial slurs directed at Black, Jewish and Muslim people.

…Robinson also used homophobic slurs frequently, calling other users f*gs.

In a largely positive forum discussion featuring a photo of two men kissing after one returned from a military deployment, Robinson wrote the sole negative comment.

“That’s sum ole sick ass faggot bullshit!” he wrote.

North Carolina law would allow the executive committee of the state Republican Party to nominate a replacement if a racist, porn-loving Black Nazi “dies, resigns or for any reason becomes ineligible or disqualified.” Any votes that Robinson got in the election would go to the replacement but the party is prohibited from selecting a replacement who already ran in the same race in the 2024 primary (state Treasurer Dale Folwell).

Aaron Blake reminded his readers last night that for year Señor T has been foisting damaged goods onto the GOP “in ways that have obviously cost his party dearly— up to and probably including control of the Senate. It’s not just his endorsements of several flawed statewide candidates who went on to badly underperform and lose key races; it’s also the ethos he’s created in the party. He’s placed a premium on owning the libs and devotion to Trump, and he’s devalued political bona fides. He has effectively encouraged his party to overlook a Trump-loyal candidate’s very obvious baggage, by dismissing it as lies from the liberal media or even viewing it as an asset.”

Blakes noted that “Republicans who were already worried about Robinson hurting the GOP ticket in a vital swing state— one of three especially key ones for Trump— must now be pulling their hair out. And there aren’t many good answers for the party at this point… [I]t’s generally thought that presidential candidates can be bigger drags on down-ballot races, rather than vice versa. The latter is called a ‘reverse coattails’ effect. But if even a small handful of people look at Robinson and it sours them on the GOP ticket as a whole, that could matter greatly. North Carolina was decided by just more than a point in 2020, and it’s been polling very closely in 2024.”

This whole thing was also utterly predictable and potentially avoidable, but for Trump. Robinson has been saying highly controversial things for years, but he wound up getting only token opposition in the GOP primary. Trump helped grease the skids by signaling as far back as June 2023 that he would be supporting Robinson.

As much as that actual endorsement, though, it’s about Trump making Republicans believe they can win with candidates such as Robinson, despite all the evidence to the contrary in swing states in recent years. Robinson, a candidate who probably wouldn’t have stood a chance in a GOP primary a decade ago, wound up winning the primary by 46 points.

The irony here is that Trump this year has actually endorsed fewer obviously flawed candidates in key states, allowing some establishment-oriented Republicans to emerge from primaries.

But not everywhere. And now it’s throwing a wrench into his own race.