North Carolina GOP Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is being urged by staff members and members of the Trump campaign to drop out of the governor’s race over a pending CNN story regarding alleged inflammatory statements made by Robinson on an online message board in 2009, reports the Carolina Journal.

The story is damning enough that Robinson, according to campaign staff, canceled all campaign events on Thursday so he could travel to appear on CNN live to explain himself.

“I spoke to Mark this morning and he was prepared to go on CNN and defend himself against the allegations,” Jason Williams, a partner in Endgame Consulting, the agency handling Robinson’s campaign, told Business North Carolina.

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