Trump has previously campaigned for the gubernatorial candidate.
Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump looks on during a rally at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, in Uniondale, New York, Sept. 18, 2024.Former President Donald Trump returned to the key battleground state of North Carolina for a rally Saturday, but declined to mentionThe rally went on amid the allegations surrounding the Republican lieutenant governor, who the former president had previously supported and called "Martin Luther King on steroids.
Robinson, who did not appear at the rally, was accused of posting inflammatory comments on the message board of a pornography website more than a decade ago,In this April 9, 2022, file photo, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson joins the stage with former President Donald Trump during a rally in Selma, North Carolina.to attend Saturday's rally. Trump has not given any indication that he intends to pull his endorsement of Robinson.
Trump has campaigned for Robinson multiple times during this election cycle, including inviting him to speak at his rallies in North Carolina this year and hosting him at his Mar-a-Lago estate for a fundraiser last year. People close to the former president told ABC News that they were bracing for the Robinson story on Thursday. The campaign was planning to put more distance between Trump and Robinson, but initially did not have plans to push him to drop out, sources said.
Robinson's beleaguered campaign, however, did come up at a rally headlined by vice presidential candidate Gov. Tim Walz in Allentown, Pennsylvania."We got folks running as Republicans for governor that are proud to refer to themselves as Nazis. Let's not pretend that there's a gradual difference between the folks that are running here– that they're running together," Walz said.
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