Trump-Endorsed Mark Robinson Wins North Carolina Primary Governor Race

As President Trump continues his Super Tuesday winning-streak, absolutely dominating Nikki Haley — who is refusing to attend any public events and hasn’t even come close to winning a single state primary tonight — another big MAGA win is flying under the radar.

Trump-endorsed candidate Mark Robinson has just won the GOP primary governor race in North Carolina!

Check it out:

BREAKING: TRUMP-endorsed candidate, Mark Robinson wins Republican nomination for governor in North Carolina primary election. pic.twitter.com/yXU95OJPQR

— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) March 6, 2024

Trump endorsed, and amazing patriot, Lt Gov Mark Robinson, has won the North Carolina GOP candidate race for Governor! pic.twitter.com/0T946HrGJX

— 🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat (@leslibless) March 6, 2024

Mark Robinson wins the North Carolina primary.

Game on. pic.twitter.com/G8dlLPMuCk https://t.co/uEMZwClAKc

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 6, 2024

The New York Times reported on Mark Robinson’s win:

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina defeated his two challengers in the Republican primary for the governor’s race on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. His win proved that his blustering, Trump-aligned style is favored by conservatives who are gearing up for what will probably be the most expensive and closely contested statewide race in the country.

Mr. Robinson had consistently maintained a sizable lead against his opponents, Dale Folwell, the state treasurer, and Bill Graham, a personal injury and wrongful death lawyer. Now he will face Josh Stein, the Democratic state attorney general, whose policies mirror those of Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat who is popular but term limited.

Mr. Robinson’s nomination notched another success in what has been a remarkable rise for the lieutenant governor: In 2018, he was working in furniture manufacturing. A year later, after he drew national attention in conservative circles with a video showing him criticizing gun control at a public meeting in Greensboro, he entered the race for lieutenant governor.

Mark Robinson is hated by the left for his anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ, and pro-Trump stances.

Over the weekend, President Trump referred to him as “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

Here’s what NBC News had to say about how Robinson is viewed by the left:

Democrats have already been attacking Robinson over a litany of past controversial and incendiary statements. Among them are his saying at a campaign event last month that he’d work to eventually abolish abortion rights in the state if he is elected governor.

“We got it down to 12 weeks. The next goal is to get it down to six and then just keep moving from there,” he said.

Even those remarks suggested a moderation for Robinson, who in 2020 said that “there is no compromise on abortion” and that “it makes no difference to me why or how that child ended up in the womb.”

Robinson also recently suggested that transgender women should be arrested if they use women’s restrooms, adding at a campaign event last month that people who “are confused” about their genders should “find a corner outside somewhere to go.” Robinson has also described the LGBTQ community as “filth.”

Opponents also point out that Robinson has slammed public school teachers as “wicked people”; revealed himself to be a full-throated election denier, saying Biden “stole the election”; and cast doubt on whether the Holocaust occurred, calling its existence “hogwash” in 2017 Facebook posts. In 2022, he said he owned assault rifles so he’d be prepared if “the government got too big for its britches.” In other Facebook posts that year, he called the Civil Rights Movement “crap.”

Robinson enjoyed strong support from the same demographic groups as Trump: very conservative voters, white evangelicals and those with no college degrees, according to results from the NBC News exit poll of Republican governor primary voters.

Trump endorsed Robinson over the weekend, calling him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”