North Carolinas anti-LGBTQ+ Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R)who is running for governor and considers LGBTQ+ people as filthy demons who mentally rape childrenis doing poorly in polling, running 14 points behind his Democratic opponent, North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein.AHigh Point University/SurveyUSApoll released on August 22 showed 48% of voters supporting Stein and just 34% supporting Robinson. Additionally, 18% of respondents said they were undecided, and the polls margin of error was +/-4%. Related Anti-LGBTQ+ governor candidate flees reporters by hiding in an elevator North Carolina Lt. Gov. really doesnt want to talk about his recent suggestion for people to kill leftists. Former President Donald TrumpendorsedRobinson, calling him Martin Luther King on steroids. However, Robinson has said he considers King to be aninferior pastor and a communist who wanted tosubvert capitalism and free choice. Your LGBTQ+ guide to Election 2024 Stay ahead of the 2024 Election with our newsletter that covers candidates, issues, and perspectives that matter. Subscribe to our Newsletter today Robinsons unpopularity in the poll may be related to his extremist views, which include racism, anti-semitism, anti-abortion stances, and anti-LGBTQ+ hostility.Robinson has previously referred to African Americans as muddle headed negroes, apes, and monkey, all of which are regarded as racial slurs. I am TIRED of blacks and mexicans running around shouting about being proud of their race, he wrote on social media, later adding, Note to liberals; Ill accept Gay Pride when you accept White Pride.He has said that the COVID-19 pandemic was a globalist conspiracy to defeat then-President Trump. Robinson also referred to survivors of the 2018 Parkland High School mass shooting as angry, know-it-all CHILDREN; spoiled little bastards; and media prosti-tots for supporting gun reforms. He believes school shootings are Gods punishment for abortions, like the one he paid for his then-girlfriend and now-wife to get in 1989.Robinson has referred to abortion as murder and genocide and said that abortions arent about protecting the lives of mothers but rather about killing the child because you werent responsible to keep your skirt down. In a July 2021 speech, he didnt care if someone was 24 hours pregnant or 24 weeks pregnant, saying, If you kill that youngun. It is murder. You got blood on your hands.In a recent political ad, Robinson said he supported a 12-week abortion ban with common sense exceptions for rape and incest. OhWhen Im governor, mothers in need will be supported, Robinson said in the ad, seated alongside his wife, Yolanda Robinson. #NCGov: R nominee Mark Robinson is up on TV with this spot Robinson, holding hands with wife Yolanda, to camera: "Thirty years ago, my wife and I made a very difficult decision: we had an abortion" pic.twitter.com/jJ6dIsZbwp Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) August 2, 2024Previous to the ad, which was released on August 2, Robinson said he supported a heartbeat bill allowing abortions until the sixth week of pregnancy, a time before most people even realize that theyre pregnant. He has also said, If I was the governor and had a willing legislature, we could pass a bill saying you cant have an abortion in North Carolina for any reason.Steins campaign released a statement on the same day that Robinson released his ad, saying that Robinson is running from his record and misleading voters on his abortion views. If North Carolinians want to know where Mark Robinson stands on abortion, they should listen to every other comment hes made on the issue before today, the statement said.Republicans worry that their support for restrictions on abortion access could bring more pro-choice Democratic voters to the polls in the 2024 general elections. Since the overturning ofRoe v. Wade, voters in seven states have supported ballot measures strengthening abortion access, even in conservative states like Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio. Similar measures will be on the November ballots in Colorado, Florida, Maryland, and South Dakota, all of which could help bring out Democratic voters to oppose former President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. Robinson is also infamous for his anti-LGBTQ+ commentsAmongRobinsons many anti-LGBTQ+ statements, he has called homosexuality an abominable sin, referred to lesbian celebrity Ellen DeGeneres as a top ranking demon proudly serving in Satans army, and has called former First Lady Michelle Obama a man, repeating a transphobic misogynoir conspiracy theory. He hasalso calledthe trans equality movement demonic and full of the spirit of Antichrist.In March 2023, Robinsondeclaredthat God created him to battle against LGBTQ+ rights and added, Makes me sick every time I see it a church that flies that Rainbow flag, which is a direct spit in the face of God almighty. In 2021, Robinsoncompared LGBTQ+ peopleto cow dung.In 2021, Robinsoncreated an education task forceto investigate and pull LGBTQ+ literature from public schools, as well as report instances of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools.Inan October 24, 2019 Facebook postagainst gender-affirming care for minors, Robinson wrote that trans children are being mentally raped by their parents and other supportive adults. In 2017, hewrote on Facebook, You CAN NOT love God and support the homosexual agenda.Robinson has said that trans peopleshould defecate on public street corners outsiderather than using bathrooms matching their gender identity.ABC News reportedthat Robinson failed to file federal income taxes for a period of five years.