Incumbent Attorney General of North Carolina and Democratic candidate for North Carolina governor Josh Stein speaks, on the day of a campaign event of Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, in Charlotte, North Carolina, US, November 2, 2024.
Robinson was endorsed by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who previously praised him as “Martin Luther King on steroids” but whose campaign distanced itself after the scandal broke in September. Robinson had a history of inflammatory comments even before the CNN report, including referring to homosexuality and transgenderism as “filth” and online posts that questioned the Holocaust. He has defended the “filth” comment and apologized for the “wording” of his antisemitic posts.