Tag: Mark
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Mark your bodies so we can ID you
PERRY, Fla. — The Taylor County sheriff has a grim warning for residents who have chosen to ignore evacuation orders and wait out Hurricane Helene at home: Mark yourself with your information so officials can identify you later. Taylor County is expecting to take a direct hit from the Category 4 storm that’s expected to…
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Four Mark Robinson staffers step down from embattled campaign
Four top staff members of Mark Robinson‘s campaign for North Carolina governor have stepped down, the campaign announced Sunday as the candidate faces calls from Republicans to do the same. The campaign’s comment did not link the staff departures to the bombshell CNN report alleging Robinson, a Republican, made antisemitic and racist comments years ago on a…
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Sen. Raphael Warnock says embattled N.C. GOP candidate Mark Robinson is ‘white supremacy in blackface’
Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., on Sunday said GOP gubernatorial candidate and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is “the antithesis of everything that Dr. [Martin Luther] King represented,” describing him as “white supremacy in blackface.” In an interview on MSNBC’s “Inside with Jen Psaki,” Warnock blasted Robinson, who was the subject of a CNN report…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham says embattled GOP candidate Mark Robinson must defend himself
Sen. Lindsey Graham told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” on Sunday that North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson “has an obligation to defend himself” following reports last week that Robinson made lewd posts on a pornographic website over a decade ago. “The charges are beyond unnerving,” said Graham, a South Carolina Republican, referring to a…
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Vance says allegations against Mark Robinson ‘aren’t necessarily reality’
LEESPORT, Pa. — Sen. JD Vance on Saturday reacted for the first time to the bombshell report about Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, saying that the allegations against Robinson “aren’t necessarily reality.” “The allegations are pretty far out there, of course, but I know that allegations aren’t necessarily reality,” Vance,…
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Trump has no plan to pull his endorsement of Mark Robinson after alleged porn site scandal
Donald Trump is facing calls both from his allies and from within his own campaign to pull his endorsement from scandal-plagued North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson, according to four people familiar with the discussions. So far, however, there are no plans for the former president to formally drop him. On Thursday, CNN reported that…
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Black pastors rebuke Mark Robinson’s reported remarks about Martin Luther King Jr.
Three prominent Black pastors in North Carolina and other respected clergy have rebuked Mark Robinson, the embattled North Carolina lieutenant governor who is running for governor, for his past incendiary remarks about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Robinson is under intense fire after CNN shared countless controversial comments that he allegedly made on social…
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Trump grapples with fallout from Mark Robinson’s latest scandal: From the Politics Desk
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, we look at how Donald Trump is handling the political fallout from CNN’s bombshell report on North Carolina…
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Democrats seize on new Mark Robinson scandal to boost down-ballot prospects in N.C.
Democrats are preparing to ramp up efforts to tie Republicans up and down the ballot in North Carolina to Mark Robinson following a report that the GOP gubernatorial candidate made inflammatory comments on the message board of a pornography website. National and state Democratic groups were already making Robinson the centerpiece of their strategy in…
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Democrats launch new ad push to tie Trump to Mark Robinson following reported porn website comments
Less than 24 hours after CNN published a bombshell report on comments that it said Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor of North Carolina, made on a pornographic website, the Democratic National Committee unveiled new advertisements linking him to former President Donald Trump. The DNC plans to launch a new digital advertisement and nearly…