North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson hospitalized following ‘incident’ at campaign event

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was hospitalized following an “incident” at a campaign event Friday evening, Fox News Digital has confirmed.

This happened while Robinson was attending the Mayberry Truck Show in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.

“Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson was treated at Northern Regional Hospital for second degree burns. He is in good spirits, appreciates the outpouring of well wishes and is excited to return to the campaign trail as planned tomorrow morning” , Mike said. Lonergan, communications director for Robinson’s campaign, told Fox News Digital.

It is unclear how Robinson was burned.

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson hires pro-Trump lawyer to investigate porn website allegations

Robinson, the current Republican lieutenant governor, is running against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein to replace Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. in battlefield condition, was recently accused of making controversial comments on a pornographic website.

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Robinson denies the allegations. He hired a lawyer who previously worked for former President Trump. The Binnall Law Group of Northern Virginia is investigating allegations raised in a CNN report released earlier this week.

“Normally something like this, an investigation, you know, by the Department of Justice and the FBI would take months or years,” Binnall previously told Fox News Digital. “We can’t do that in this case because voters need an answer before the election. So we’re going to move very quickly while giving them a very comprehensive report.”

“He absolutely denies saying anything in the CNN article,” Binnall said of Robinson. “What my investigation is going to do is we’re going to follow the facts. We’re going to investigate this case aggressively. We’re going to leave no stone unturned. We’re going to be very, very aggressive. And the citizens of North Carolina will not deserves nothing less than a full investigation into this matter, and that is what we are going to do.”

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The CNN report comments surfaced that Robinson allegedly made more than a decade ago on a pornographic site’s message board, including describing himself as a “black NAZI”; saying he liked transgender pornography; saying he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama in 2012; and criticizing the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.”

Robinson denied saying the words, but Republicans began distancing themselves from the candidate who, if elected, would be North Carolina’s first black governor. Trump did not mention Robinson, whom he endorsed before the March primaries and who has spoken at other Trump events, during the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign. rally in Wilmington, North CarolinaSATURDAY.

“The allegations against me are outright lies, fabricated to distract voters from Josh Stein’s disastrous record,” Robinson said in a statement to Fox News Digital regarding the investigation. “The great people of North Carolina deserve the truth, and I am fully committed to ensuring they get it with complete transparency.”

Danielle Wallace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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