Democrat Kamala Harris’ presidential marketing campaign is losing no time capitalizing on a bombshell CNN story about racist and lewd feedback that North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), the state’s GOP gubernatorial nominee, apparently made on a porn discussion board between 2008 and 2012.
A new Harris ad, launched only a day after the report, options Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump fawning over Robinson at occasions.
“I feel you’re higher than Martin Luther King,” Trump tells Robinson in a single clip, unaware that in on-line posts, Robinson had allegedly known as the civil rights icon “worse than a maggot,” wished “they might deliver it (slavery) again” and referred to himself as a “black NAZI.”
In one other clip, Trump, who endorsed Robinson earlier this yr, says he’s “been with him loads. I’ve gotten to know him, and he’s excellent.”
CNN reported that in different posts, Robinson — identified for his current anti-transgender rhetoric — defined his appreciation for trans pornography, and wistfully recalled the instances he spent as a youngster secretly “peeping” on ladies in public fitness center showers.
“Donald Trump and Mark Robinson ― they’re each mistaken for North Carolina,” a voice-over within the Harris advert concludes.
In response to the CNN story, the Trump marketing campaign rejected studies that it’s pressured Robinson to withdraw from his race.
“That’s completely inaccurate,” Brian Hughes, a senior Trump marketing campaign adviser, told NBC News. “Faux information. Didn’t occur. Trump and the Trump marketing campaign have had no pushing or the rest. Inaccurate.”
North Carolina Democrats, in the meantime, predict that the explosive story might have an effect on different races down the poll ― and up.
“Usually, somebody operating for governor, even when they turned out to underperform, wouldn’t be somebody who would affect the remainder of the ticket,” Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-N.C.) advised “CNN This Morning.”
“However this isn’t regular.”
Given the slim margins in a lot of the statewide races there, mentioned Jackson, even a small affect on the vote might “swing a complete bunch of elections, together with the presidential election.”
