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Robinson’s campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, finance director, and a senior adviser resign following a report about his alleged past online comments.
Several top employees of North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have resigned amid an ongoing scandal about comments he allegedly made on a pornographic website. The Republican nominee has denied the accusation.
Robinson’s campaign released a statement on Sept. 23 announcing the resignations of his campaign manager Chris Rodriguez, deputy campaign manager Jason Rizk, finance director Heather Whillier, and senior adviser Conrad Pogorzelski III.
“I appreciate the efforts of these team members who have made the difficult choice to step away from the campaign, and I wish them well in their future endeavors. I look forward to announcing new staff roles in a couple of days,” Robinson wrote in the statement.
Robinson has vehemently denied making the statements. In a video message shortly before the story was published, he said the comments were fabricated and urged voters to focus on policy issues during the campaign.
“The things that you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson … You know that I have been completely transparent in this race and before,” Robinson said in the video, which was posted on X.
“Clarence Thomas famously once said that he was the victim of a ‘high-tech lynching.’ Well, it looks like Mark Robinson is, too,” Robinson said, referring to a moment during Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearing in 1991, where Thomas called accusations of sexual harassment against him a “high-tech lynching for uppity-blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves.”
Several top Republicans have challenged Robinson to take legal action against CNN.
On Sept. 23, Robinson said he was in the process of retaining legal counsel to “hold CNN accountable.”
The Republican candidate also vowed to rebuild his campaign staff and said his campaign is “getting offers from all over.”
“We’re right in the process right now of forming a team that we know can still lead us to victory,” Robinson said.
Neither Robinson’s campaign nor CNN responded to a request for comment from The Epoch Times by publication time.