North Carolina has been an underappreciated political battleground recently and not gotten the same attention as nearby Georgia or Florida or the traditional campaign hotbeds of the Rust Belt.
FILE - This combo image shows North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, right, speaking in Greensboro, N.C., March 2, 2024, and Democratic North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein, left, speaking in Raleigh, N.C., March 5, 2024. That is changing in 2024, in part because of a potentially historic governors race that pits North Carolinas centrist tendencies against the rise of populist conservatism in the era of Donald Trump .
Robinson, with his conservative firebrand approach, does not fit either profile. He once called abortion “child sacrifice.” In various church pulpits, he has asserted men as the rightful leaders in church and society. He once mused that leaders of the original birth control movement in the U.S. were “witches, all of 'em.” He has discussed LGBTQ people with words like “filth” and “maggots” and said transgender women should never use women’s restrooms: “Find a corner outside somewhere to go.
“The Democrats have the best messenger they could possibly have against Mark Robinson — and that is Mark Robinson,” said GOP strategist Paul Schumaker. “Because all of that is on video, audio, social media and church websites. These ads are going to write themselves.”Despite Democrats’ control of the governor’s office, North Carolina has a long history of split results between the governor and the presidency.
State Democratic Party Chairwoman Anderson Clayton countered that Robinson’s nomination and the state GOP’s direction overall emboldens her party’s base and helps attract the kind of swing voters who twice elected Cooper.
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