Republican Mark Robinson loses North Carolina governor election to Josh Stein after ‘black Nazi’ sex scandal

North Carolina’s Republican lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, failed to become governor after a series of scandals plagued his campaign.

Democrat Josh Stein won in a landslide when the race was called by ABC News on Tuesday night — 58 percent to 38 percent.

Robinson has been unable to recover following the latest revelations that he shared several controversial comments on a pornographic forum called Nude Africa – including calling himself a ‘black Nazi’ and a ‘perv’.

Gov. Roy Cooper, a favored Democrat in the state, failed to run for re-election after serving two consecutive terms.

Democrats were initially concerned about losing the seat to a Republican in the red-leaning state.

But when Robinson emerged as the Republican Party’s scandal-ridden nominee, those fears disappeared almost immediately.

The final nail in the coffin for Robinson was the CNN report that revealed his history of abusive internet activities.

The report, which first aired on September 19, said that more than a decade ago, Robinson left comments on the message board where he called himself a “black Nazi,” said he enjoyed transgender pornography, said he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama and mentioned the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ‘worse than a maggot’.

The network report said it linked details of the message board account to other online accounts owned by Robinson by comparing usernames, a known email address and his full name.

CNN reported that the data shared by the account holder matched Robinson’s age, length of marriage and other biographical information.

The network also said it compared tropes that frequently appeared in his public Twitter profile and those that also appeared in posts from the account on the pornographic website.

Republicans urged the lieutenant governor to end his bid for governor after the claims emerged in mid-September, before it was too late for them to put forward another candidate. But Robinson denied being the author of the messages and refused to step aside.

And now the right-leaning state will have a Democrat for at least four more years.

Robinson, who if elected would have been the state’s first black governor, sued CNN over its report on his online activities on the porn forum.

Democratic Governor Roy Cooper was unable to run for re-election in North Carolina after two consecutive terms in office

The lawsuit, filed in Wake County Superior Court, was announced by Robinson at a news conference in Raleigh with a Virginia-based attorney.

Robinson called the report a “high-tech lynching” of a candidate “who has been targeted from Day 1 by people who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.”

About a week after the first CNN report appeared, most of Robinson’s staff quit.

By September 23, he had only two campaign spokespeople and a bodyguard on his team.

Earlier in the campaign, separate allegations also emerged claiming Robinson was a regular at a sex shop.

A former employee of the store said the Lt. Gov. would bring free pizza and tell jokes in the style of ’80s comic Andrew “Dice” Clay.