Dr. Phosphorous
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Massive Democratic voter registration in North Carolina. --
Furthermore, the crazy Republican candidate for governor, Lt Gov Mark Robinson, is also weighing down Trump in the state. --
“The week of July 21, Democrats registrations were up 31 percent from 2020 while GOP registrations were up that week just 5 percent, and that does not include the unaffiliated voters,” the Daily Mail reported. “Among black voters, [registration] was up 124 percent, among Latinos registrations were up 101 percent. Among black women, they were up 130 percent while young black women registering to vote was up 231 percent.”
Furthermore, the crazy Republican candidate for governor, Lt Gov Mark Robinson, is also weighing down Trump in the state. --
In addition, the North Carolina governor’s race might have a “reverse coattails” effect. The Republican nominee, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, is an extremist conspiracy nut, a “fount of social media conspiracy theories and vile proclamations about the LGBT community, Jews, and other minority group,” the Daily Beast noted this year. From Holocaust denial to thundering that “some folks need killing” to his support for an abortion ban from “zero weeks,” he symbolizes everything wrong with today’s MAGA Republican Party.
Robinson’s Democratic opponent, Josh Stein, the state attorney general, has opened a 10-point lead. If Democrats tie Robinson (a Trump favorite) to Trump, voters might run from both. At the very least, Republicans could suffer a drop in turnout as disgusted North Carolinians simply stay home. Paul Shumaker, a GOP strategist in the state who worked for an opponent of Robinson’s in the primary, told the Daily Beast that “a so-called ‘reverse coattails’ effect is entirely possible, where some voters back off from voting for Trump because of Robinson’s antics.”
He is not alone. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, told NewsNation, “Trump is being weighed down by a very unpopular Republican candidate for governor.” He added, “Trump is going to have some difficulty, I think, in this state, in North Carolina, that he might not have in others.”