NC-GOV: Robinson lashes out at Republican senator amid tensions over campaign

North Carolina GOP gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson recently lashed out at Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) at a campaign event, slamming the senior senator as “spineless” following tensions surrounding the continuation of his campaign.

Robinson, speaking Saturday, referred to a war being fought on “four fronts” — in Israel, in Ukraine, at the U.S.-Mexico border and “on our streets to save our children.” He suggested that with these issues ongoing, Tillis’s criticizing him is not helpful.

“I don’t need some lily-livered, jelly-backed, spineless toad like Thom Tillis wanting to cross his legs,” Robinson said to applause and cheering from those in attendance.

“I called him ‘spineless,'” he continued. “And here’s why I called him spineless: cause he’s more concerned about standing up against Mark Robinson and other Republicans like me than he is to standing with us to fight these Democrats who are trying to destroy this nation.”


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