Mark Robinson: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote' (2 Viewers)

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On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.
But just four years ago, Robinson said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.
“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.

Mark Robinson's Bizarre Ramble: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn’t Vote'

In a newly unearthed video, North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor says America was better then because Republicans "fought for real social change."

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I'm offended that the man won election as Lieutenant Governor. No man with his views should ever be in any governmental office.

No woman should ever vote for this man. In fact, any woman who supports this man should not vote. They agree that they shouldn't vote if they vote for him.

Finally to him and all who want to repeal the 19th Amendment:

 

[Lapaz]

CNN has documented everything. This is so old and outlandish, how the hell could they be forged. He can say what he wants, but there is evidence to the contrary and if they want to claim fake news, so be it. I imagine there will be drops coming out every week or two from the Oppo file Stein has.

We’re in a new world where things can be faked very convincingly. I think it is very believable that he wrote those comments, but if he denies it, I have to at least consider that it is possible that it was forged, but if he truly didn’t say any of that stuff, then he should sue CNN and let the forensics discover the truth. He should’ve filed a defamation lawsuit almost immediately. Did CNN warn him that it was about to publish the report?

 

[coldseat]

We’re in a new world where things can be faked very convincingly. I think it is very believable that he wrote those comments, but if he denies it, I have to at least consider that it is possible that it was forged, but if he truly didn’t say any of that stuff, then he should sue CNN and let the forensics discover the truth. He should’ve filed a defamation lawsuit almost immediately. Did CNN warn him that it was about to publish the report?

CNN asked him/his campaign for comment and attempted to verify with his campaign before publishing. They had no comment. CNN also had an interview with him after it was published so that he could explain his side. It didn't go well for him, just typical denial.

There's no way that's not him. This is really solid reporting on CNN's side. It's also not the least bit surprising.

 

[MT15]

We’re in a new world where things can be faked very convincingly. I think it is very believable that he wrote those comments, but if he denies it, I have to at least consider that it is possible that it was forged, but if he truly didn’t say any of that stuff, then he should sue CNN and let the forensics discover the truth. He should’ve filed a defamation lawsuit almost immediately. Did CNN warn him that it was about to publish the report?

 

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The posts have now disappeared...

Lewd posts by Trump-backed candidate for NC governor removed from porn forum | CNN Politics

Offensive posts by North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson were removed from the pornographic website Nude Africa on Thursday, hours after a CNN KFile investigation revealed a series of inflammatory comments posted on the forum by the controversial and socially conservative Republican nominee for...

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More and more mainstream Republican officials are calling on Mark Robinson, their party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina, to sue CNN if he really believes a damning report about his history of comments on an online porn site is false or step aside in the race.

Robinson was trailing his Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, before the release of the report on Thursday. CNN's article uncovered a deep history of shocking and outrageous comments apparently made by Robinson on a porn site years before he entered politics……

Pressure mounts on Mark Robinson from all sides after porn site scandal

Lindsey Graham, following a senator in Robinson’s home state, echoed calls for Robinson to refute ‘Black Nazi’ claim in court or step aside

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The Trump campaign is increasingly worriedthat the scandals plaguing the campaign of North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson might damage their prospects in the key battleground state.

The last Democrat to win the state on the presidential level was former President Barack Obama in 2008 and it’s likely a must-win for Mr Trump if he wants to return to the White House in January next year….

“This is an issue that has to do with Robinson’s campaign and not President Trump’s campaign,” a Trump official told Axios on Thursday.

In October 2011, Mr Robinson called Martin Luther King Jr “worse than a maggot” and a “huckster”.

Meanwhile, Mr Trump has referred to Mr Robinson as Dr King “on steroids”.

In a video shared on X before the CNN report, Mr Robinson said: “Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson.”……

The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Michael Whatley, has previously noted that Mr Robinson is polling lower in the state than Mr Trump, which might indicate that his presence in the campaign could drag the former president down.

“I understand the concern that’s been raised ... because you do have a spread between Donald Trump and Mark Robinson,” he told Axios.

Last month on NewsNation, former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said: “Trump is being weighed down by a very unpopular Republican candidate for governor.”……

Trump distancing himself from North Carolina gubernatorial candidate after scandal

Mark Robinson made a series of bizarre comments on a porn forum between 2008 and 2012, according to a report

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More and more mainstream Republican officials are calling on Mark Robinson, their party’s nominee for governor in North Carolina, to sue CNN if he really believes a damning report about his history of comments on an online porn site is false or step aside in the race.

I wonder if it's the same people that are fine with those kind of things from Trump?

 

[Nebaghead]

I wonder if it's the same people that are fine with those kind of things from Trump?

If it was false he would sue. There is no evidence to prove he is innocent.

 

[Optimus Prime]

(CNN) — Four top operatives on Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, the campaign announced on Sunday.

General consultant and senior advisor Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, finance director Heather Whillier and deputy campaign manager Jason Rizk have stepped down from the campaign.

The announcement from Robinson’s campaign comes in the aftermath of a CNN report uncovering inflammatory comments the lieutenant governor and Republican nominee for governor made on a pornography website message board over a decade ago.

The lewd comments included Robinson describing himself as a “black Nazi” and how he used to go “peeping” on women at a public gym when he was 14 years old.

Robinson has a long history of making inflammatory statements but the newly unearthed message board posts go a step beyond……

Several senior campaign officials for Mark Robinson step down in wake of CNN report | CNN Politics

Several top operatives on Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, just days after a CNN report uncovered inflammatory comments the candidate made on a porn website.

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(CNN) — Four top operatives on Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, the campaign announced on Sunday.

General consultant and senior advisor Conrad Pogorzelski III, campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, finance director Heather Whillier and deputy campaign manager Jason Rizk have stepped down from the campaign.

The announcement from Robinson’s campaign comes in the aftermath of a CNN report uncovering inflammatory comments the lieutenant governor and Republican nominee for governor made on a pornography website message board over a decade ago.

The lewd comments included Robinson describing himself as a “black Nazi” and how he used to go “peeping” on women at a public gym when he was 14 years old.

Robinson has a long history of making inflammatory statements but the newly unearthed message board posts go a step beyond……

Several senior campaign officials for Mark Robinson step down in wake of CNN report | CNN Politics

Several top operatives on Republican Mark Robinson’s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, just days after a CNN report uncovered inflammatory comments the candidate made on a porn website.

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I was about to post this. Sounds like rats abandoning a sinking ship.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Jacob Wohl's running buddy





Interesting that Robinson's response is not an emphatic denial but a vague "these are just internet rumors floating around out there"

 

[Optimus Prime]

...........Republicans today know they have a race problem, and with whites expected to no longer be the majority race in a few decades, the GOP recognizes they will be uncompetitive without greater support from minorities. Black women are too loyal to the Democratic party – and are honestly too savvy to fall for the GOP’s tricks – but Republicans sense they might have a shot with Black men.

Enter Robinson. With the wildly unsupported claims he made in his viral speech, it’s not immediately clear why Republicans thought they had found their guy. My guess is they saw him as a Black man who checked all the right stereotypical boxes for them – conservative, angry, and grew up in a broken home – and assumed he could become their emissary to Black men.

But for as much as white Republicans may have hoped Robinson could help them appeal to Black voters, I think they knew he could help them energize white MAGA voters even more. How? By publicly saying the racist things about Black people they couldn’t. He has compared the Obamas to “the stench of human waste,” alleged that Michelle Obama was a transgender woman who spoke “ghetto,” and called Black Democrats “slaves,” Beyonce a “skank,” and George Floyd a “scumbag.” Judging by some of the comments on his anti-Black social media posts, Republicans in North Carolina knew exactly what they were doing when they gave him the platform they did.

Don’t get it twisted – I’m not trying to suggest that Robinson is getting used by the Republican party. I’m sure he views it as a win-win situation. What I’m saying is that the rest of us have a right to feel insulted that Republicans continue seeking out Black men like Herschel Walker and Mark Robinson to do their bidding. White Republicans should feel insulted too. They should demand more of the leaders their party elevates. Even though I have some other gripes with him, I’d take a decent man like Tim Scott over Mark Robinson any day.

At the moment, I’m not too concerned because the GOP’s pact with Robinson massively backfired. Even before last week’s bombshell, polling showed him with only 2 percent support from Black men. Overall, Democratic nominee Josh Stein’s lead is growing. While it looks like Republicans might learn their lesson in the short-term, Democrats have a lesson to learn in the long-term. Robinson won the lieutenant governor’s race in 2020 as a political newcomer, even as the seasoned Republican nominee for governor lost his election..............

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Former VP Harris Aide: 'Mark Robinson and Other Republican Black Men Are Being Used as MAGA Tools'

This White House insider breaks down the real reason Mark Robinson and his ilk are allowed to thrive.

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[MT15]

Hmmmm…lol

 

[Optimus Prime]

Bolding mine.

If that is true (and wouldn't be surprised if it isn't) why would anyone want to jump on a sinking and burning dumpster filled with shirt?
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..........Downballot candidates once lined up to greet voters at Robinson’s events and bask in his stardom. No longer. Now, state GOP leaders worry Robinson could alienate enough voters to cost them their supermajority in the General Assembly, and Trump made no mention of Robinson at his Saturday rally in North Carolina. A representative for the Republican Governors Association said Monday that “no further placements” had been made for ad buys in the race.

In many ways, Robinson is now campaigning against the news media rather than Josh Stein, the state’s Democratic attorney general. Speaking with the fiery indignation that once made him GOP star, Robinson on Monday accused the media of ignoring real issues in favor of “15- to 20-year-old salacious false lies.”

“They want to talk about what possibly happened 15 years ago,” Robinson said. “Let’s talk about right now.”

His campaign was in shambles six weeks out from Election Day. His general consultant Conrad Pogorzelski II had resigned along with at least seven other staff, Pogorzelski said — the campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, finance director, deputy finance director, director of operations and two political directors.

“We don’t comment on internal strategy or investment decisions, but we can confirm what’s public — our current media buy in North Carolina expires tomorrow, and no further placements have been made. RGA remains committed to electing Republican Governors all across the country,” said RGA communications director Courtney Alexander.

A handful of protesters taunted Robinson with signs as he arrived at Vernon’s Cake Carousel Bakery, accompanied by one of his last remaining aides, communications director Mike Lonergan.

“HELP WANTED,” one sign read, listing campaign manager and other newly vacant roles. Robinson claimed to reporters, without providing details, that “we’re getting resumes from all over.”...............

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/09/23/mark-robinson-campaign-staff-porn-site-north-carolina/

 

[Optimus Prime]

I don’t want this to come across as “what’s the big deal?” but why is this a big deal compared to what we already know about this guy and the videos of him saying it?

The black Nazi and slavery stuff is terrible but not that far removed from his comments on civil rights in general and Martin Luther King specifically

As bad as the peeping on women in the shower is, he was 14. How many boys that age with that opportunity wouldn’t have looked?

He had said some truly atrocious things about abortion, the fact his wife had an abortion herself was already out there

Is it that he liked transgender porn after everything he’s said about the lgtbq community?

Like I said it’s all awful but there was already an awful lot of awful out there

 

[Lapaz]

I don’t want this to come across as “what’s the big deal?” but why is this a big deal compared to what we already know about this guy and the videos of him saying it?

The black Nazi and slavery stuff is terrible but not that far removed from his comments on civil rights in general and Martin Luther King specifically

As bad as the peeping on women in the shower is, he was 14. How many boys that age with that opportunity wouldn’t have looked?

He had said some truly atrocious things about abortion, the fact his wife had an abortion herself was already out there

Is it that he liked transgender porn after everything he’s said about the lgtbq community?

Like I said it’s all awful but there was already an awful lot of awful out there

I agree with you to a point, but I think the black nazi and slavery stuff is even worse than some of the other atrocious stuff he has said, and I also think it is that he is even worse than he was already perceived to be. It is telling that he feels comfortable in the Republican party, and should concern the black men that seem to also find comfort in the party.

 

[Nebaghead]

I agree with you to a point, but I think the black nazi and slavery stuff is even worse than some of the other atrocious stuff he has said, and I also think it is that he is even worse than he was already perceived to be. It is telling that he feels comfortable in the Republican party, and should concern the black men that seem to also find comfort in the party.

Throw in this all occurred on a porn site. It wasn’t a private chat room or Facebook page, it was a porn site.

 

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said Tuesday his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board.

The lawyers will look at how what Robinson calls “false smears” originated.

The announcement comes as more North Carolina Republicans disturbed by last week’s report said that if Robinson can’t formally refute the accusations quickly, the GOP should shift its focus to competitive in-state races.

Other Republicans already have abandoned Robinson, the sitting lieutenant governor. The Republican Governors Association said Monday it will no longer support Robinson.

His campaign had benefitted from the group spending millions of dollars in advertising in his race with Democratic nominee Josh Stein, whom polls have shown leading Robinson. Most of Robinson’s top campaign staffers also quit in the report’s fallout.

GOP officials are anxious that Robinson’s situation could pull down Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and help Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the battleground state, and threaten the outcomes of other key seats on the ballot.

“He should conclusively and quickly prove false the allegations against him,” Hal Weatherman, who is seeking to succeed Robinson as lieutenant governor, said on X. Weatherman runs separately from Robinson but received his endorsement.

“If he can prove this isn’t true and was fabricated to hurt him, he will win in a landslide. But if he fails to do so, he will lose, because the comments being attributed to him are highly disturbing.”

Robinson, a favorite of the state GOP’s conservative base and who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, has denied writing the messages from more than a decade ago, well before he became active in politics.

In a news release, Robinson said he was confident the Binnall Law Group from northern Virginia “will leave no stone unturned and enable us to use every legal means to hold CNN accountable for their lies.” Firm partner Jesse Binnall has represented Trump and his campaign in litigation.……

In effort to refute porn-site message report, Mark Robinson campaign hires a law firm

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson says his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board — something he denies.

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