The ex-president previously endorsed the scandal-ridden Republican, praising him as "Martin Luther King on steroids."

Former President Donald Trump distanced himself from controversial Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who is also the Republican nominee for governor, as he visited three cities in North Carolina to tout the state's early voting initiatives.

Earlier this month, Robinson announced a lawsuit against CNN and a Greensboro man and was seeking $50 million over allegations linking him to a pornography shop and extreme comments made on a porn website.

The Trump-endorsed GOP gubernatorial candidate allegedly called himself a "Black Nazi" in past posts to a porn website.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, called the report a “high-tech lynching” on a candidate “who has been targeted from Day 1 by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson announced Tuesday he was suing CNN and a porn store employee for defamation. CNN published a story last month regarding Robinson’s alleged racist and sexually explicit posts on message boards of the porn site NudeAfrica,

With Roy Cooper term-limited, North Carolina will get a new governor in 2024. After easy victories in the primaries, Democrat Josh Stein and Republican Mark Robinson are the major party candidates seeking to become the state’s 76th Governor.

In a recent poll, Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is closing the polling gap between himself and Democrat Josh Stein in the race for governor. After polls recently had Stein leading by as much as 17%,