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Mark Robinson, the leading GOP candidate for governor, also likened the toppling of a Confederate statue to Kristallnacht, among other incendiary remarks

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Mark Robinson, lieutenant governor of North Carolina speaks at a rally for U.S. Senate nominee Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) at the North Carolina Republican Party Headquarters on November 7, 2022, in Raleigh, N.C.

Mark Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina and a leading Republican candidate for governor, found his efforts to declare solidarity with Israel backfiring — by drawing renewed scrutiny to his long history of invoking antisemitic conspiracy theories and...

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