Kamala Harris is targeting women, among other groups, in North Carolina, as GOP gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson is embroiled in a fresh scandal.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will not be joined by his party's embattled pick for North Carolina governor when he visits the critical electoral state on Saturday, the Trump campaign said.

Robinson, the lieutenant governor of North Carolina, allegedly posted inflammatory comments on the message board of a pornography website years ago, CNN reported.

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten breaks down the importance of the state of North Carolina in the upcoming presidential election.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump traveled to North Carolina for a rally Saturday amid fallout from that state's GOP gubernatorial candidate calling himself a "Black Nazi" on a pornography website.

Donald Trump delivered a speech attacking rival Kamala Harris and detailing his campaign pledges during a visit to North Carolina, while avoiding mention of the state’s Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson and the firestorm surrounding his candidacy.

The former president did not mention Mr. Robinson, the state’s embattled Republican nominee for governor, whom he once called “Martin Luther King on steroids.”

At a Trump rally in Wilmington, N.C., many said they would still vote for the embattled Republican nominee for governor.

In North Carolina, that group could be as big as 8%, higher than any other battleground state. That’s a fraction of the total electorate, but with national polling showing razor-thin margins, a fraction will decide the next president.

Here in 2024, polls suggest Black voters in North Carolina remain about 5 points more Democratic-leaning than Black voters nationally. Eighty-three percent of Black voters in North Carolina support Harris, while 78 percent of Black voters nationally do, according to a straight average of crosstabs of Black support in polls conducted since Aug. 19.*

Controversy swirling around a North Carolina Republican candidate for governor is causing political turbulence in a must-win swing state for Donald Trump. The BBC asked conservatives there what they make of the alleged scandal. It was during a regular meeting of the Johnston County Republican Women’s committee that they heard the news.