


Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
Who will go down with the would-be Republican governor?
“This is Martin Luther King on steroids,” Donald Trump told a crowd in Greensboro, North Carolina, three days before Super Tuesday. Mark Robinson, the lieutenant-governor and Republican candidate for governor whom Mr Trump was endorsing, wasn’t sure he liked that, the former president went on to say. Mr Robinson had called King an “ersatz pastor” and the civil-rights movement the “Communist Rise Movement”. On September 19th CNN unearthed a heap of comments that make it even clearer that Mr Robinson—now the party’s nominee, with less than 50 days to the election—is no justice-loving preacher. Writing on Nude Africa, a porn site, he called himself a “black NAZI”, said he wasn’t in the Ku Klux Klan because “they don’t let blacks join” and that if they brought back slavery, which he wished they would, he would “certainly buy a few”.
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