The newest polling at RealClearPolitics gives Josh Stein, North Carolina’s current attorney general, a promising edge over Mark Robinson, who is the current lieutenant governor.
Six recent polls, all done in August, favor Stein with an RCP average of 8.7% over the Republican candidate. Two of the polls give Stein a double-digit lead over Robinson, predicting a trouncing in November.
The current Democrat governor, Roy Cooper, is term-limited and thus set up a political race to replace him.
Cooper, narrowly won re-election in 2020 with a 51%-47% win over Dan Forest, who was the Republican lieutenant governor at the time.
Trump narrowly won the state four years ago 49%-48% over Joe Biden.
Dr. Alex McFarland, a North Carolina-based Christian apologist, says Robinson committed an “unforgiveable sin” that angered the Left.
“He's a black man, a leader, but yet he's a conservative and he doesn't toe the party line. He doesn't parrot the party narrative," McFarland says.
That description was reflected in a mocking June story by New York Magazine that mockingly called Robinson “MAGA’s Great Black Hope.” Robinson is running for governor, the story said, with no experience and few accomplishments, after becoming famous as a “factory worker turned keyboard warrior,” which is a reference to his controversial social media comments about Democrat politicians, homosexuals and transgenders.
Brief speech launched political run
Robinson, 55, stumbled into politics in 2018 when he was an unknown furniture factory worker. That year he signed up for a speaking slot at a Greensboro city council meeting, then delivered a fiery four-minute speech about Second Amendment rights.
The video went viral, making Robinson famous overnight, and two years later he was elected lieutenant governor in a 51%-48% win over a state representative, Yvonne Lewis Holley.
An AFN story from March pointed out Robinson was being called a “Holocaust denier” by the national media and by Democrats. His opponents dug up an online post from him that appeared to suggest Robinson was questioning if Adolf Hitler really disarmed the Jews. The post, from 2018, reads:
“…This foolishness about Hitler disarming MILLIONS of Jews and then marching them off to concentration camps is a bunch of hogwash…”
In context, however, the entire post from Robinson showed the furniture factory worker knew his world history. Robinson was pointing out the Weimar Republic had disarmed the German people, leaving them defenseless, before Hitler ever rose to power.
It just so happens that Robinson is facing a Jewish opponent, Stein, in the race for the governor’s seat.
With the election nearing, Robinson is similarly being targeted by Democrats for a fiery June speech at a church. A story by a TV news station, WRAL, describes how Robinson stated “some folks need killing” during the speech.
That portion of the speech, which Robinson predicted would be controversial, can be viewed here.
A campaign spokesman said Robinson was referring to fighting the Japanese and Germans during World War II, which the news story acknowledged was true. Democrats said the Republican was referring to hurting his political opponents, too.
McFarland says Democrats do not care about the truth.
"They care about power,” he argues, “and independent thinking is not allowed.”
