Days after a CNN report about racist and sexual comments posted on a pornography forum, all but a few of Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign team quit their jobs on Sunday.

A campaign news release said that four top staffers have left the campaign: Conrad Pogorzelski, general consultant and senior advisor who’s worked for Robinson since his initial 2020 lieutenant governor campaign; Chris Rodriguez, campaign manager; Heather Whillier, finance director; and Jason Rizk, deputy campaign manager.

But WUNC has confirmed that other staffers have quit as well, leaving Robinson with just three people working on his campaign — two campaign spokesmen and a bodyguard. The list of departures also include longtime director of operations Patrick Riley and political directors John Kontoulas and Jackson Lohrer.


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Don’t give up, Mark!

#RobinsonStrong

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He can’t anymore. The absentee ballots have already gone out.

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Except in NC if he quits the Republican leadership can pick a replacement candidate and all of Robinson’s votes go to him. It’s all very democratic.

https://www.wral.com/story/what-happens-if-mark-robinson-drops-out-of-nc-governor-s-race/21634665/

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That’s right, Mark! Keep fighting to get Stein elected. You’re doing a great job! 😂

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It’s weird; I didn’t see a single ad for Robinson here in NC until after the scandal broke

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Well, he has all the money he was paying them free to spend now…

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My guess is frequency illusion

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Might make sense if I hadn’t been painfully aware of his existence for months before this latest incident.

There’ve actually been a lot of anti-Robinson ads ever since the primary.

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Maybe the opposition stopped bothering advertising against him so hard.

Or move they’re working on new ads that are coming this week.

Is actually better for Dems if he doesn’t drop out of the race (I think the deadline to replace him on the ballot is Thursday). So if we’re quiet and force him to stay on the ballot, it will help us for both the presidency and governor race.

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Lucky you. I started seeing them months ago. They paint him as this innocent Southern man of humble origins. Tbf, I don’t remember seeing one of them within the past month or so, so maybe they’ve actually died off in some places,

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Dear MAGA SuperPACs, I’ve received more of your mailings than credit card offers and bills combined over the past four month. Though the gaslighting offered by them frequently cause me to laugh out loud at your brazen lies, I still tire from seeing that treasonous pumpkin of a candidate you have in my mailbox. As 99% of these mailings get torn up and thrown straight into my outside recycling bin, you are more than welcome to stop mailing me. Thank you, committed Harris voter in North Carolina.

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The other half whose are continue to work for him are either next level weirdos or too far down the cult rabbit hole.

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Or need the job…

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$20 is $20.

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👆

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In any other timeline I’d think he would have no chance. But really, how many of is would be really and truly shocked if he won anyway? Surprised? Sure. But actually shocked?

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republicans in NC just can’t stop offering up completely unelectable psychos and/or morons as their candidates. these are the dicktips who thought madison fucking cawthorn was a great idea

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Hell, cawthorn and his talk of cocaine and sex parties looks looks tame by comparison.

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Is he unelectable, though?

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because it’s a cult, dear great leader trump is the only one who’s completely unaffected by scandal. small time nobodies like mark robinson aren’t. look at madison cawthorn. george santos. christian ziegler. though loyalty is more important than anything else to them, their 2 brain cells rubbing together at least recognizes that this toxic goon will do literally nothing to help the republican party, and everything to make them even more hated than they already are. even fucking trump wants nothing to do with him

completely fucking unelectable

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“Yeah, he said he’s a black Nazi and watches tran[s] porn, but my Diaper-wearin’ Golden God Emperor endorsed him! Besides, I couldn’t possibly vote for a Democrat, they are just so extreme!”

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“He’s one of the good ones. Well spoken and would own slaves”.

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