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Behind the Aegis

(54,854 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 03:19 AM Mar 2024

N.C. governor's race pits Jewish Democrat against Republican who says he apologized for past antisemitism

When North Carolina voters go to the polls in November to elect their next governor, they will choose between a Jewish Democrat and a Republican who has been accused of antisemitism but said he apologized.

Both parties’ contests were called relatively early on Tuesday evening, as soon as the polls closed. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who has troubled his state’s Jewish community with past remarks considered antisemitic for which he has expressed remorse, was projected to win the Republican nod for governor, and will face off against Josh Stein, the state’s Jewish Democratic attorney general.

NBC called Tuesday’s primaries for Robinson and Stein as soon as the polls closed. Stein was the first Jew to win statewide office in North Carolina in 2016, when he won the attorney general’s race. Robinson, who is Black, had the backing of former President Donald Trump, who recently called him “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

Stein, 57, trotted to the nomination after being endorsed last year by outgoing Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who is term-limited. He is active in Temple Beth Or in Raleigh, a Reform synagogue, and has invoked his Judaism in explaining his politics.

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I am waiting for some Court Jews to come out and defend this POS. I doubt I will be disappointed.

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N.C. governor's race pits Jewish Democrat against Republican who says he apologized for past antisemitism (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 OP
I gave Stein $25 tonight. RandySF Mar 2024 #1
'Court Jews' ??? elleng Mar 2024 #2
Yes!! Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 #3
means WHAT? elleng Mar 2024 #6
Means what it says. Behind the Aegis Mar 2024 #8
Robinson is a bigoted, hate mongering mnhtnbb Mar 2024 #4
Interesting pairing in a neck and neck race. JudyM Mar 2024 #5
Here you go. Mosby Mar 2024 #10
The Daily Show just showed a series of clips that painted quite a picture JudyM Mar 2024 #11
Oh please, please, please let Josh Stein win! OldBaldy1701E Mar 2024 #7
He is not only an antisemite, he is also an anti-LGBTQ bigot. madaboutharry Mar 2024 #9

mnhtnbb

(32,064 posts)
4. Robinson is a bigoted, hate mongering
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 05:45 AM
Mar 2024

self righteous,Trumpist type grade A a$$hole who happens to be Black. It's going to take a huge percentage of the African American population in NC to hold their noses and vote against him--because he is Black-- in order for common sense to prevail and vote for the White guy rather than not vote at all.

JudyM

(29,517 posts)
5. Interesting pairing in a neck and neck race.
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 12:48 PM
Mar 2024

I’m betting more closet skeletons will be revealed… when the rhetoric is so clear, it’s a pattern, not a random blip. A televised debate would be especially interesting.

Mosby

(17,469 posts)
10. Here you go.
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 09:30 PM
Mar 2024
Mark Robinson: 'I Absolutely Want To Go Back To The America Where Women Couldn't Vote'

In a newly unearthed video, North Carolina’s GOP nominee for governor says America was better then because Republicans "fought for real social change."On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson won the GOP primary to become his party’s nominee for North Carolina governor, presumably with the help of female voters.

But just four years ago, Robinson said he’d “absolutely” like to return to the days when the 19th Amendment didn’t exist ― when women didn’t have the right to vote.

“I absolutely want to go back to the America where women couldn’t vote,” Robinson said in a newly resurfaced video of his remarks at a March 2020 event hosted by the Republican Women of Pitt County.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218751343

OldBaldy1701E

(6,349 posts)
7. Oh please, please, please let Josh Stein win!
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 05:35 PM
Mar 2024

I want to watch a certain segment of the population's heads explode once they have to face the fact that they have a Jewish governor. In fact, I hope to cheer it on!

madaboutharry

(41,356 posts)
9. He is not only an antisemite, he is also an anti-LGBTQ bigot.
Wed Mar 6, 2024, 08:56 PM
Mar 2024

He also doesn’t think women should be allowed to vote!

For the Republican Party, it’s all about the hate.

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