Mark Robinson Won’t Drop Out Amid Alleged Bombshell Report | EUROtoday

North Carolina GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson mentioned Thursday that he’s not dropping out of his race amid experiences of a bombshell story coming later within the day regarding his alleged exercise on grownup web sites within the 2000s.

“Let me reassure you, the things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson,” he says in a video assertion offered to the conservative information outlet National Review. “You know my words. You know my character. And you know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before.”

Robinson, who’s presently the state’s lieutenant governor, didn’t shed any gentle on what’s coming within the information report. But he blamed the media and his Democratic opponent, Attorney General Josh Stein, for spreading lies.

“Our opponents are desperate to shift the focus here from the substantive issues and focus on what you are concerned with to salacious, tabloid trash,” he says within the video clip. “We cannot allow that to happen.”

Robinson in contrast himself to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, saying that he, too, is the “victim of a high-tech lynching.” This is how Thomas characterised the assaults he confronted throughout his 1991 Supreme Court affirmation listening to amid allegations of sexual harassment by Anita Hill.

“Clarence Thomas famously once said he was the victim of a high-tech lynching,” Robinson mentioned. “Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is, too.”

“We are staying in this race. We are in it to win it,” he added. “God bless you. And we will see you where? On the campaign trial.”

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