A Democrat supporter of his had confided in him the opposition’s plan to “Mark Robinson” him, he said, alluding to the former North Carolina lieutenant governor whose gubernatorial campaign unraveled last year after damaging online posts, allegedly made by him before he entered politics, resurfaced.
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Robinson, who was seeking to become the state's first Black governor, said he didn’t write those posts and sued in October, just before early in-person voting was to begin.
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