J.D. Vance’s shock response to North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s sick ‘black Nazi’ porn comments

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein is blaming Donald Trump for helping beleaguered North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson capture the Republican nomination for governor.

Meanwhile, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, said for the first time in response to the shocking CNN report that it is not up to him whether Robinson continues his race for governor.

He also questioned the allegations and said he would reserve judgment until they were proven true.

“The allegations are obviously pretty outlandish, but I know they don’t necessarily reflect reality,” Vance told NBC Philadelphia on Saturday.

He added that “ultimately it’s up to Mark Robinson and North Carolina whether he becomes their governor and whether he wants to stay in the race.”

Stein said Sunday that Trump and others who helped Robinson get on the ballot should be held accountable at the ballot box in November for their support for the candidate who has reportedly called himself a “black Nazi” and a “pervert.”

A group of people from both parties spoke out on Sunday, criticizing Robinson for his vulgar and shocking comments on the pornographic forum Nude Africa.

“The allegations are beyond disturbing,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press host Kristen Welker on Sunday. “If they’re true, he’s unfit to hold office. If they’re not true, he has the greatest defamation case in the history of the country.”

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), meanwhile, said CNN’s latest report is “great news for Democrats.”

“I mean, Robinson is the new dream candidate to run against,” he told Welker in his own interview Sunday morning.

“In 2018, I thought Scott Wagner was the dream candidate we could run, and we beat him by 17 points. And then of course Doug Mastriano came along in ’22,” Fetterman said, listing a number of previous GOP candidates who had been defeated by Democrats.

“But then Robinson says, ‘Hey, hold my beer.’ And now of course Trump is not going to back down, just because he’s never going to admit what a disaster this is,” the Pennsylvania senator concluded.

Fetterman said he’s not sure it will affect the November presidential election, but said it would be “great, and almost [a] ball game if Harris beats North Carolina.’

“She’s already made North Carolina competitive,” he said of Vice President Kamala Harris. “And after Robinson, we’re in the best possible position to win.”

Meanwhile, the man who ran against Robinson outside a residence in the North Carolina governor’s mansion said Trump and others running in 2024 should face the consequences for supporting Robinson.

Senator JD Vance says it is up to Robinson whether he stays in the race for governor of North Carolina and says he will not pass judgment until the allegations are proven true.

Josh Stein is running as a Democrat in the North Carolina governor’s race and says Robinson is only on the ballot because of Donald Trump’s support

“Robinson exists because Donald Trump lifted him up,” Stein told CNN’s State of the Union host Jake Tapper on Sunday.

“Candidates at every ballot box in North Carolina need to be held accountable for their support of Mark Robinson and their participation in his entire campaign,” he continued. “They supported him and now it appears that people want to run away from him.”

“But Mark Robinson couldn’t exist without the support of Donald Trump.”

The Trump campaign has distanced itself from the lieutenant governor in recent days. He did not show up for a rally with Sen. J.D. Vance in Raleigh last week that he was originally scheduled to attend, and did not attend a rally for Trump in North Carolina on Saturday.