RALEIGH, N.C. — In a rare public appearance Wednesday, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson declined to speak with reporters and decried attempts to ask him questions about past comments as "pure shameful," as his security detail shuffled him into an elevator leaving the building.
It came weeks after Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, made comments that critics said condoned political violence — telling a church audience during a campaign stop that “some people need killing.” Those words have drawn criticism from political opponents.
“Mark Robinson makes North Carolina less safe,” Anderson Clayton, the North Carolina Democratic Party chairwoman, said Wednesday during a virtual news conference. “... It's jarring and irresponsible for the sitting lieutenant governor and the Republican nominee for governor to say something so reckless and so clearly intended to incite violence."
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