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leading Republican candidateA review of his Facebook posts over the years reveals a pattern of offensive and disgusting language in the way he talks about prominent women, including former First Lady Michelle Obama, singer Taylor Swift and Vice President Kamala Harris.Mark Robinson, who is the leading Republican candidate to be governor in North Carolina, appears to have a problem with successful women.Those are just Robinson’s attacks on women in politics.
He claimed that “the stench of indecency Americans are smelling is not coming from Pepe Le Pew,” the cartoon skunk in Warner Brothers cartoons, but instead was coming fromWho is surprised that Mark Robinson has been endorsed by Donald Trump, and has endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2024?HuffPost reached out to Robinson ― both his campaign and his state government office ― to ask why the lieutenant governor has spent years publicly attacking and demeaning so many successful women.
Democrats have held this governor’s seat for decades, despite this being a swing state. Current Gov. Roy Cooper is term-limited out in 2024.in North Carolina to get a sense of how Robinson, with his dangerous conspiracy theories and disgusting attacks on women, came to be the GOP’s front-runner for governor. The consensus was that he has two things going for him that other GOP candidates don’t: name recognition and Trump’s endorsement.
“He represents the culture war id of the Republican Party,” said Steven Greene, a political science professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh.Greene predicted that if Robinson does become the GOP nominee, he will lose the general election in 2024. “We have seen ever since the elevation of Trump, Republican primary voters, again and again, time and time and time again, choosing the candidate who makes an awful general election candidate in a purple state,” he said.By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners.
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