(The hill) – North Carolina Gov. Mark Robinson (R) was hospitalized and treated for burns Friday after a campaign incident gubernatorial candidates Campaign.
“After an incident at a campaign appearance at the Mayberry Truck Show in Mt. Airy, Lt. “Governor Mark Robinson was treated for second-degree burns at Northern Regional Hospital this evening,” Mike Lonergan, the campaign’s communications director, said in an interview statement.
“He is in good spirits, is happy about the many congratulations and is looking forward to getting back into the election campaign tomorrow morning as planned,” he added.
Robinson’s campaign told NewsNation — which is owned by The Hill’s parent company, Nexstar Media Group, announced that Robinson has been fired and will campaign again in the Tar Heel State on Saturday. According to the Washington Post, the lieutenant governor burned his hand after leaning against a truck at a truck show in Mt. Airy reporter.
The health incident occurred shortly after Robinson received backlash after publishing the expletive on CNN report about the candidate, describing a series of inflammatory comments he apparently made on a porn site forum more than a decade ago, including calling himself a “black Nazi.” In those posts, the lieutenant governor described his tastes for pornography and said he would take Adolf Hitler over “any of the shit that’s in Washington.”
Some of his campaign staff left in the wake of the reports. He has it too Lost support from the Republican Governors Association, which said it had no future advertising reservations supporting the candidate in the gubernatorial race Race against Attorney General Josh Stein (D).
Also some of his top employees in the government office specified they would resign from their positions. Some Republicans have distant himself by Robinson, and many suggested he should refute the claims in the report or possibly abandon his gubernatorial run.
Robinson said on Tuesday that he had hired law firm Binnall Law Group to investigate the “false slander” in the report and swore stay in the race.
