The Fox News Decision Desk projects North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein will win the state’s high-stakes gubernatorial election over Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.
The Fox News Decision Desk projects Democratic North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein to win the state’s gubernatorial election against Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.
The high-stakes election pitted the progressive candidate, Stein, who was backed by term-limited Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper to fill his current seat, and Robinson, whose meteoric political career launched in 2018 after an impassioned speech about the Second Amendment in a viral video.
The Robinson campaign was rocked by scandal weeks ago when a local news outlet reported on Sept. 3 that Robinson allegedly routinely visited porn shops, viewing materials in a private booth, according to former employees and customers. Robinson’s alleged visits to adult stores unfolded in the 1990s and 2000s, before his transition into the political sphere, according to the report.
Robinson and his campaign denied the report as «complete and total fiction», but he stayed in the spotlight of scandal when CNN ran a report later that same month claiming Robinson frequented a pornography site called «Nude Africa», where he allegedly messaged with fellow users about peeping on women in locker rooms as a teenager, describing himself as a «black NAZI» and declaring a fondness for transgender pornography.
The alleged use of the chat forums played out between 2008 and 2012, according to CNN, well before Robinson entered the political arena in 2019, when he announced his run for lieutenant governor.
