North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is the front-runner in the Republican primary for governor in 2024, and could receive the endorsement of former President Donald Trump at an event at Mar-a-Lago next week.
Trump faces a slew of criminal charges related to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, which President Joe Biden won.
The former president continues to push false claims about the election, and an audio recording obtained by The News & Observer shows Robinson has embraced those claims.
Robinson, who has endorsed Trump, said in a speech at a church in 2021 that Biden “stole the election,” the recording shows.
Robinson spoke in the cadence of a sermon, focused on what he described as “demonic” television full of bad news. He preached to members of the Beulah Baptist Church congregation in Bennett for about 45 minutes, telling them that they should turn off the television and stand up for stances he believes they should take: against abortion, ”transgenderism” and ”indoctrination” in schools, and in support of Second Amendment gun rights.
He advised his audience not to listen to what’s on television about what Black people cannot accomplish, giving himself as an example for reaching the office of lieutenant governor in spite of growing up in poverty and around domestic violence and crime. Robinson is the first Black lieutenant governor in North Carolina.
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