Crew went to Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson’s house just a few hours after accusations were made against him.
Not a single person answered, so we asked his neighbors. When we talked to Julie Blount, she had just read the shocking story.
“I said a prayer for him while I cut the grass.” I hope they’re not true, but based on what they say, it sounds like they might be. I’ll see what takes place. Blount said, “If he stays, I’ll back him up.”
Diane Parnell, Chairman of the Rockingham County Republican Party, says she will continue to support Robinson and doesn’t accept any of the claims that have been made.
There are Republicans who want him to step down. Are they doing it because they want to or because it will help them? I don’t get it. Mark has my trust. Mark is someone I know. I’ve known him and his wife Yolanda for a while. “Mark Robinson is the only person I would trust,” Parnell said.
Jonathan Bridges, who runs the campaign for Congressman Mark Walker, says Robinson’s choice could hurt other races in the state.
“As of this morning, the Carolina Journal poll showed that Mark Robinson is down by 10 points. All of our other council state races are also down.” That should worry every Republican in North Carolina, Bridges said. Even Trump is down a few points on the vote there.
Bridges says that the talk needs to happen right now if Robinson decides to drop out of the race.
“I believe that the NCGOP and the Trump campaign should talk to the Lieutenant Governor about that.” “Polls show that his campaign isn’t helping the ticket at all,” Bridges said.
Robinson’s background
Greensboro-born Robinson. Before campaigning for North Carolina lieutenant governor, he worked in furniture factories and ran a contentious daycare with his wife in the early 2000s, which he described “difficult to keep afloat.” He blames NAFTA for employment losses.
He has struggled financially for years. On his campaign website, he states he “grew up extremely poor as the ninth of ten children.” He suffered repeated bankruptcies and was five years delinquent on taxes as an adult.
He’s been investigated for unpaid rent and vehicle taxes. The NCDHHS said his wife’s organization from before his political career until 2024 is under state and federal review for financial and operational difficulties.
Robinson gained fame after a Greensboro City Council meeting video went viral in April 2018. In response to the Greensboro Coliseum gun show cancellation, he gave an emotional statement on gun laws in that video. The speech became an NRA ad. He later joined the NRA board.
Eric Robert, a mayoral candidate, abandoned a lawsuit against the city over the Greensboro Coliseum and gun exhibitions.
First elected lieutenant governor, he became the first Black man to assume the role in 2020. As lieutenant governor, he created the FACTS Taskforce to “exposing indoctrination in the classroom” and allow parents to submit unacceptable instructional material or library books in North Carolina schools.
He was criticized for homophobic and anti-transgender sentiments during a February 2023 podcast appearance and for spreading conspiracy theories concerning Paul Pelosi and Michelle Obama’s gender. He recently told Trinity Baptist Church in Mooresville that rainbow-flagged churches “makes him sick” during a March 19 speech.
He has spoken out against abortion, calling North Carolina a “destination state for death” on the radio. Robinson has been criticized for calling his wife’s abortion “the hardest decision we ever made, and, sadly, we made the wrong one.” In recent months, he has softened and publicly supported the 12-week abortion ban.
Talking Points Media called him a “Facebook brawler who rails against gays, blacks and Jews,” noting his posts on globalism and the New World Order.