Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson “is at the moment being handled for burns,” his communications director confirmed to NBC Information on Friday evening.
“Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is at the moment being handled for burns following an incident at a marketing campaign occasion in Mt. Ethereal. He’s in good spirits,” mentioned Mike Lonergan, the Robinson marketing campaign’s communications director.
Lonergan was responding to an NBC Information query a couple of NewsNation report saying that the North Carolina candidate was hospitalized.
Particulars surrounding the incident are unclear.
Robinson was beforehand set to talk throughout a North Carolina Religion & Freedom occasion on Saturday, however an organizer for the occasion mentioned Friday evening that the occasion needed to be canceled, noting that the venue didn’t have energy. Hurricane Helene wreaked havoc in elements of North Carolina, particularly the western area of the state, the place the occasion was going to be held.
The incident got here just days after a bombshell CNN report that alleged that the lieutenant governor made antisemitic and racist feedback on a porn web site years in the past.
Within the days after the story broke, four top staff members of the embattled Republican’s campaign stepped down, although the marketing campaign didn’t hyperlink the departures to the report.
Robinson has remained defiant within the face of the allegations, regardless of some Republicans expressing concern over the report. Robinson has denied the allegations.
The Harris marketing campaign has sought to tie Robinson to former President Donald Trump, who endorsed him previous to the discharge of the CNN report, in hopes that the controversy surrounding Robinson’s candidacy helps Democrats flip the state blue. Trump gained North Carolina by a slim margin in 2020, and Republicans have acknowledged that it might be tough for them to win the White Home with out the state.
