The biggest news on the swing-state map this week: election expert Larry Sabato moving North Carolinaâs gubernatorial race from âlean Democraticâ to âlikely Democraticâ in the wake of the latest round of embarrassing revelations about embattled Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the hapless GOP candidate this cycle.
Sabato is being generous. Itâs more than likely Democratic at this point.
Which is why Robinson should do the right thing â after neglecting to do it by withdrawing by Thursday nightâs deadline â and stop campaigning to be governor.
While the latest discoveries CNN reported â in which Robinson described himself as a âblack Nazi,â defended chattel slavery as ânot badâ since âsome people need to be slavesâ and delighted in âtranny on girl pornâ â are uniquely horrifying even in this debased era of American politics, they arenât the first time weâve heard disqualifying details about Robinsonâs sordid predilections.
In other words, Robinson was already a threat to âdampen turnout,â as they say, given what was known about him even before Thursdayâs cable-news killshot.
As The Post reported way back in March, Robinson had already made comments that would have ended campaigns in a different political era.
âI absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldnât vote,â Robinson told a group of female Republicans, all of whom can and do vote.
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Robinson misgendered Michelle Obama, called gay people a âsatanic cultâ and offered bilious and racist commentary on the âBlack Pantherâ film as âtrash . . . only created to pull the shekels out of your Schvartze pocketsâ â using a Yiddish slur for black people â while complaining African Americans get âso excited about a fictional âheroâ created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by a satanic Marxist,â as the Daily Dot reported.
And thatâs only the tip of the iceberg of the reported antisemitism.
He offered a similar review of the 1977 âRootsâ miniseries, calling it âHollywood trash that depicts the ignorance and brutality of the goyim, and the helplessness and weakness of the shvartze.â
And, predictably enough, heâs an on-the-record Holocaust denier. He used the word âhogwashâ to describe Nazi genocide.
He also likened Jewish bankers to âthe four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.â
Any one of these statements would have been disqualifying decades ago in any race â never mind one against a Jewish candidate (North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein).
The full body of Robinson’s comments are disqualifying now, but heâs staying in the race, with cover provided by the Trump operation and the North Carolina Republican Party.
The deadline to withdraw was after CNN published the latest revelations â but Robinson insisted on staying in. One particularly hollow argument for this is the ballots were already printed.
A Trump world source denied reports the former president wanted the man he once called âMartin Luther King on steroidsâ out of the race, saying itâs ânot accurateâ that Donald Trump or the campaign âhas any role in a requestâ to drop out.
And just as the Jets game kicked off Thursday night in MetLife, the North Carolina GOP attempted a punt.
The party accused âthe leftâ of working to âdemonize Robinson with personal attacks,â framing the damning quotations as a distraction from a âpolicy contestâ about, among other things, the âopen-borders policiesâ promulgated by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Speaking of Harris, sheâs got a new ad out tethering Trump to Robinson that people will see through Election Day during airings of âWheel of Fortuneâ and (appropriately enough) âJeopardy!â
The campaign says it âintersperses Trumpâs high praise for Robinson with Robinsonâs own extreme comments on abortion, including his support for a total abortion ban without exceptions to protect the life of the woman.â
It also shows that if Robinson doesnât stand down as an active candidate, the rest of his sad-sack campaign is just an in-kind contribution to Harris, Tim Walz and the Democratic National Committee.
Trump is clinging to a 0.1% lead in the Tar Heel State, per FiveThirtyEightâs average. A poll may simply be a snapshot in time, but we have a stack of surveys at this point suggesting a photo finish.
Trump can win North Carolina without the Robinson distraction. But that wonât happen if a thoroughly discredited candidate is dragging him down.
Mark Robinson needs to do the former president and Republicans a solid. He needs to go away, sooner than later.
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