Kamala Harris' marketing campaign has bitten again after former President Donald Trump's refusal to reply whether or not or not he would rescind his endorsement of Mark Robinson, the GOP’s gubernatorial candidate who has been embroiled in a scandal after a CNN report detailed a historical past of controversial feedback on pornography boards from accounts linked to him.
Speaking Thursday to reporters at a press conference in Trump Tower, the previous president addressed a variety of subjects, together with the migrant disaster, the battle in Ukraine, and even touched on the indictment of New York City Mayor Eric Adams. He notably didn't point out the North Carolina gubernatorial candidate, who earned the coveted Trump endorsement in March.
As he left the rostrum, a reporter requested if he was planning to tug his endorsement of the lieutenant governor. Trump responded “I don’t know the situation” earlier than rapidly strolling away and taking one other reporter’s query.
The Trump marketing campaign didn't instantly reply to a request for remark from the Daily Beast.
The CNN report unearthed a prolonged backlog of express feedback from accounts linked to the lieutenant governor, together with one the place the poster recognized themselves as a “black NAZI!”
Robinson has vehemently denied the reporting, calling the feedback “salacious tabloid lies.” In the times because the report was launched, Robinson has seen each marketing campaign employees and workplace employees resign.
The Harris marketing campaign, who're desirous to tie the previous president to the besieged lieutenant governor in an necessary swing state, rapidly responded to the comment. “It’s impossible to believe that, somehow, Donald Trump missed the news about his handpicked candidate for governor calling himself a ‘Nazi,’” Harris marketing campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa stated in an announcement despatched to the Daily Beast.
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Mark Robinson and his spouse, Yolanda Hill Robinson, attend a Trump occasion in Asheville, North Carolina in August.
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“Trump has been to North Carolina twice since the news broke and is still standing by Robinson, even as the people who know Robinson best are abandoning him,” Moussa stated.
Although Robinson has appeared at Trump rallies up to now, he didn't present up on the Republican nominee’s rallies on September 20 in Wilmington and on Wednesday in Mint Hill.
Robinson has attended Trump occasions up to now—as just lately as August 21, he attended a speech the previous president gave in Asheboro, North Carolina, and even obtained a shout-out from the rostrum. “Mark Robinson, he's out there. He's fighting. He's fighting. He's a great one,” based on a transcript of the occasion revealed by Roll Call.
