NC Republican to Mark Robinson: 'Quickly prove' allegations are false — or prepare to lose

Another North Carolina Republican is backing away from embattled gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson — and this time it's the current nominee for lieutenant governor, the office Robinson himself currently holds.

Hal Weatherman addressed in a statement Tuesday on X bombshell revelations published by CNN last week that linked Robinson to an account on a porn site's message board in which Robinson defended slavery and called himself a "Black Nazi."

Robinson, he wrote, “should conclusively and quickly prove false the allegations against him."

"If he can prove this isn’t true and was fabricated to hurt him, he will win in a landslide," said Weatherman. "But if he fails to do so, he will lose, because the comments being attributed to him are highly disturbing."

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"His entire campaign strategy should be focused on proving the allegations false," he added. "During this process I and the other Republican candidates need to stay focused on winning our own races.”

Robinson to this point has already been fending off controversy for a series of posts questioning the Holocaust, attacking school shooting survivors, and promoting various conspiracy theories. In the newly surfaced posts, Robinson also touted Adolf Hitler's autobiographical manifesto "Mein Kampf" as a great read.

Robinson maintains that he is being set up and denies writing any of these comments.

In response to the latest revelations, Robinson has seen a mass exodus of staffers from his campaign and prominent North Carolina Republicans distancing themselves from his campaign, with most either condemning his remarks or pivoting their focus to former President Donald Trump and down-ballot races.