NC GOV 2024 - Stein (D) vs Robinson (R)

[Storr]

How insane do you have to be to use the Kent State Shootings as example of an appropriate use of force against protestors? [We already knew Robinson was a nutjob, but still.]

"“The shooting that happened at Kent State now, I don’t know how much you know about that shooting at Kent State, but people have got to understand it,” Robinson said on one podcast in 2018. “We have the constitutional right to peacefully assemble. Now peacefully assemble does not mean you could throw bricks at National Guardsmen, bust out windows and block traffic. Once you cross that line into violence and the disruption of public transportation and public services and start blocking the entrances of a federal building, you are no longer a protestor.”

“You are are now a criminal and you need to be dealt with like a criminal,”..."

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1654214338154995713?s=20

[Storr]

"In a CNN KFile review of his media appearances over the last five years, Robinson baselessly claimed that the Civil Rights Movement was a communist plot to “subvert capitalism” and used “to subvert free choice and where you go to school and things like that.”

“So many things were lost during the Civil Rights Movement. So many freedoms were lost during the Civil Rights Movement. They shouldn’t have been lost,”"

"Prior to his political career, Robinson frequently referred to the civil rights’ era as the “so-called Civil Rights Movement” and criticized the Greensboro lunch counter protests as a “ridiculous premise” designed to pull “the rug out from underneath capitalism and free choice and the free market.”"

"“The Civil Rights Movement destroyed hundreds of very well-run Black schools. They destroyed Black businesses across the nation. Once businesses became integrated right here in Greensboro, once Woolworth became integrated and the other cafeterias, white cafeterias became integrated, Black folks stopped going to the Black businesses. And they went out of business.”

“And they went out of business because we start [sic] giving our dollars to people who didn’t want them to begin with or want them on their terms. If we had not listened to those communists and had put our dollars in our pockets and built up our society, we could have drawn well-meaning Whites to our side and run Woolworth out of business instead of the other way around,” said Robinson."

So...he's saying we should have kept segregation???

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1656773755811643415?s=20

[Storr]

Change Research/Carolina Forward (left wing organization) has poll out today showing Robinson leading Stein by 3. In line with some other polls showing a tight race or Robinson leading -- PPP had Robinson up two in March and an R pollster had Stein and Robinson tied in January.

Confirms that this is sadly Tilt R. How many people in North Carolina are going to vote for Trump, but think Robinson is a bit too much?

In 2016 and 2020 there were enough Trump voters who voted for Cooper in the Governor's race to allow the latter to win. Not to mention both of those races were against not too controversial generic white Republicans, instead of someone with a history of saying absolutely insane stuff.