NC GOP Nominee For Governor Made Disturbing Comments On Porn Forum

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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In a CNN exclusive investigation, our KFile team uncovered startling comments on a porn site made by Mark Robinson, who is now running to be the Republican governor of North Carolina. More than a decade ago, Robinson made a series of inflammatory comments on a pornography website’s message board, in which he referred to himself as a “black NAZI!” and expressed support for reinstating slavery. Robinson denies the charges and vows to stay in the race. KFile Senior Editor Andrew Kaczynski joins Anderson with the details. Plus, Vice President Kamala Harris holds a major campaign event with Oprah Winfrey that is live streamed from the battleground state of Michigan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, a CNN exclusive, Arquet Files has uncovered startling comments on a porn site
0:07.6	made by the man now running to be the Republican governor in North Carolina, Mark Robinson.
0:11.4	He denies the charges to stay in the race the
0:15.0	latest tonight. A few moments from now, Oprah Winfrey is scheduled to appear
0:18.0	with Vice President Kamala Harris just outside of Detroit and swing state Michigan.
0:21.6	We'll bring some of that live.
0:23.8	And breaking news in Kentucky, a judge shot dead in his own chambers.
0:27.8	Authorities say a preliminary investigation indicates it was a sheriff who killed him. We're expecting a news conference with more details.
0:35.2	We begin tonight with our CNN exclusive 47 days before the election, a bombshell
0:39.9	report from CNN's K-files about North Carolina's Republican lieutenant
0:43.7	governor Mark Robinson, who's also his party's nominee for governor. Newly
0:48.3	discovered comments that he made on the message on the message board of a
0:51.9	porn website between the years 2008 and 2012.
0:56.2	Comments that follow an already lengthy history of controversial past remarks about abortion,
1:00.6	9-11, and people who are transgender.
1:03.4	Tonight, the NAACP North Carolina Israeli news and observers
1:06.8	calling for Robinson to drop out of the gubernatorial race
1:09.5	with at least one congressional Republican agreeing
1:12.2	and more starting to distance themselves from Robinson.
1:15.5	This comes as polls suggest the state is, the state the former president has won twice, maybe,
1:20.7	up for grabs.
1:22.3	CNN, excuse me, a senior editor of CNN's K-files,
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