Democrats are looking to an unlikely source to help bring a blue wave to North Carolina this November: a Republican candidate for governor.
Mark Robinson, currently the state’s lieutenant governor, has referred to feminists as ‘Fem-Nazis,’ claimed there is a “transgender movement” that is “demonic” and a “mass delusion,” called LGBTQ people “filth,” continues to deny the 2020 election results, and has supported a no-exceptions abortion ban. Robinson has since denied ever supporting an abortion ban and avoids talking about the subject altogether, stating he prefers to promote a “culture of life.”
Despite warning that Robinson is a dangerous extremist, Democrats are rooting for him to win the Republican primary, seeing him as their best hope at motivating members of their party and independents to come out and vote.