GOP Candidate Mark Robinson Refuses to Exit Race Amid CNN Claims

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, vowed to remain in the race Thursday despite negative media reports about his private behavior. Robinson is battling Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein in the race. A CNN report published Thursday—the deadline for withdrawing from the North Carolina race—said Robinson posted multiple times on a pornographic website and once called himself a “black NAZI.” CNN based its claims on the fact that the username for