Mark Robinson may be on his way to a historic defeat in North Carolina | CNN Politics
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A new CNN poll on the North Carolina governor’s race finds scandal-plagued Republican nominee Mark Robinson trailing his Democratic opponent by 17 points.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    So… there is a limit.

    Apparently, you can’t be both black and nazis and get elected by the GOP

    • FrostyTheDoo@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 months ago

      Oh you can definitely be both of those things, you just can’t say it out loud publicly. That’s the only thing he messed up in Republicans’ eyes

      • barsquid@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know. IMO we’d have to re-run the experiment controlling for the type of pornography to be certain.

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      I’m curious how many votes he lost for being black and how many for being a nazi. I have a guess which number is greater.

  • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    “A good chunk of those sticking by Robinson may only be doing so because he is a Republican.”

    No. Shit. Lol

  • GraniteM@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 months ago

    When asked whether Vance believes Robinson’s denial that the comments were made by him, Vance said that the situation needed to “play out.”

    “I don’t not believe him, I don’t believe him — I just think that you have to let these things sometimes play out in the court of public opinion."

    Remember that for Republicans it’s not a matter of how despicable a candidate is, it’s only a matter of if they’re popular or not. Vance came right out and said that the truth doesn’t matter, just public opinion. If 50.1% of voters in North Carolina were going to vote for Robinson, the GOP wouldn’t care what he said. If that number was 49.9%, it wouldn’t matter if he was an amalgamation of Jesus Christ and Captain America, they’d throw him to the curb and claim they’d never heard of him.

    They have no principles. The only thing they believe in is power; getting it, and using it against the people they hate. That is their only true ideology.

    • WoahWoah@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      He’s a self-loathing black republican. And a self-described black nazi. He’s like a unicorn to Republicans.