Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein defeated scandal-plagued Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in the state’s gubernatorial race, NBC News projects, keeping the seat in Democrats’ hands. Stein had been the clear favorite to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in the battleground state after a campaign that was defined by Robinson’s long history of inflammatory statements.
Democrats had already been using Robinson’s litany of past controversial remarks to cast him as extreme on abortion, education and LGBTQ issues. Stein’s campaign ran ads highlighting Robinson’s comments calling abortion “murder” and “genocide” on his personal Facebook page in 2018. In other Facebook comments on a livestream from 2019, Robinson said abortion “is not about protecting the lives of mothers. ...
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