North Carolina

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Kate and Josh talk about North Carolina’s rating change, Trump’s campaign brawling with an Arlington Cemetery employee and the upcoming Harris-Walz interview.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

In March, TPM reported on several years of Facebook comments by North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson that spanned an impressive range of bigotry that targeted gay people, Black people, immigrants of many backgrounds, and Jews. At one point he even seemed to question the Holocaust.

And yet, Robinson remains the leading contender to become the Republican candidate for governor of his state.

Astoundingly, a new report in the conservative publication The Dispatch suggests that Robinson himself may believe the enormous pile of damning past comments that TPM and other news outlets have surfaced publicly is just the tip of an even more enormous iceberg of toxic material contained in Democrats’ opposition research file, which has yet to drop in full.