The Republican Party under President Donald Trump has regularly highlighted far-right candidates who have failed to garner enough support outside of hard-core partisans to win elections. But Mark Robinson, who won the Republican nomination for North Carolina governor on Tuesday night, is a special case even by modern Republican standards. Robinson, who currently serves as North Carolina's lieutenant governor, has directed hateful comments at everyone from Michelle Obama to survivors of the Parkland school shooting. He calls the LGBTQ community filth.He wants to ban all abortions, threatening to use an AR 15 against the government if it's too big for the kids. And we are going back to the days when women were not allowed to vote. He also mocks the Me Too movement, women in general, and climate change. Robinson also seems willing to tackle all kinds of conspiracy theories. He is a Holocaust denier and has a history of making anti-Semitic statements. He says the 1969 moon landing may have been faked, that 9/11 was an inside job, that the music industry is controlled by the devil, and that billionaire Democratic donor George・It has been suggested that Soros orchestrated the 2014 kidnapping of schoolgirls by Boko Haram.
Despite all this, Robinson not only won his party's nomination for the state's most powerful office, he won by more than 45 percentage points over his rivals. Other Republican candidates, Trial Attorney Bill Graham and State Treasurer Dale Falwell, expressed concerns about Robinson's suitability to win, but ultimately they were concerned about Robinson's popularity in a state that voted for Trump twice. Nothing could match MAGA's ambition. Support from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, who has sometimes distanced himself from Mr. Trump, did not help Mr. Graham in the race against Mr. Robinson. Robinson's nomination suggests that Republican primary voters are not interested in giving in to concerns about his chances of winning in battleground states that are narrowly divided based on party affiliation. This fall, Robinson will face Democratic candidate Josh Stein, North Carolina's current attorney general. Robinson's views are not consistent with the views of mainstream voters,said Paul Shoemaker, a North Carolina-based Republican strategist who advised Tillis. He'll win the general election in the middle of North Carolina, but he won't be able to conquer that group. By November he'll be an island to himself.
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