Like his fellow Republican governors Bill Lee of Tennessee, Brian Kemp of Georgia, and Henry McMaster of South Carolina, Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin is distancing himself from North Carolina’s controversial lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, in his race for governor. This comes in the wake of CNN’s bombshell report connecting Robinson’s email address to unsavory race- and sex-related comments on a porn site. Robinson has denied the allegations.
“As a member of the RGA Executive Committee, Governor Youngkin attended an event for Mark Robinson in August and has no plans to further support his candidacy,” Youngkin spokesman Justin Discigil tells National Review.
NEW: Glenn Youngkin distances himself from Mark Robinson after CNN bombshell
“As a member of the RGA Executive Committee, Governor Youngkin attended an event for Mark Robinson in August and has no plans to further support his candidacy,” Youngkin spox Justin Discigil tells @NRO
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The Virginia governor’s decision to distance himself from Robinson is the latest blow to a campaign that is now in shambles in the final sprint to Election Day. Eight staffers resigned from Robinson’s campaign over the weekend, and as National Review first reported on Monday, the Republican Governors Association has formally called it quits on the ad spending front in North Carolina.