S4 Ep34: The Holocaust Denier from North Carolina (with Zach Montellaro)

The Focus Group Podcast

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

North Carolina Republicans have nominated a candidate for governor who might be crazier than all of the Republicans who ran in 2022. And that's saying something. POLITICO's Zach Montellaro joins Sarah to walk through Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson's political rise, and how his supporters and GOP detractors feel about him.

show notes:

Zach Montellaro in POLITICO: The most important governor’s race of 2024 is about to have its own version of Trump
Jessica Piper and Zach Montellaro in POLITICO: Trump’s weaknesses with GOP voters go beyond the suburbs

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah
0:09.6	Longwell publisher of the Bull Work and this week we're taking you to North Carolina where I want to
0:15.7	introduce you to one of the worst Republican candidates since all the other
0:20.6	really bad candidates in 2022. I'm talking about Mark Robinson.
0:25.4	He was elected lieutenant governor of North Carolina in 2020
0:28.3	and this past March he won the Republican primary for governor.
0:31.8	Now Republicans nominated a lot of bad
0:34.4	candidates in 2022 like Blake Masters the Senate candidate in Arizona who thought
0:39.2	the Unabomber had some good points. Herschel Walker, the Georgia Senate candidate who played
0:44.4	Russian roulette with a loaded firearm, and Doug Mastriano, the Pennsylvania
0:49.8	gubernatorial candidate who chartered buses to January 6th. But Mark Robbins a notorious high school shooting survivors, media prostatots, denied the Holocaust, called
1:06.0	homosexuality filth, and called women who have abortions murderers.
1:10.0	Donald Trump is on track to win North Carolina in November.
1:14.3	He's currently leading by around seven points in the 538 average.
1:18.2	But Robinson is lagging well behind him.
1:21.0	So we had to talk to some of the former Trump voters who are
1:24.4	unwilling to vote for Robinson. My guest today is Zach Montelero, Deputy
1:29.7	National Editor at Politico. Zach, thanks for being here.
1:34.0	Thanks for having me.
1:35.0	Okay.
1:36.0	In your recent reporting, you dove into counties where Trump has underperformed in the primaries,
1:42.0	including one ex-urban county in North Carolina,
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