North Carolina voters Tuesday set up a historic – and likely combative and extremely expensive – race for governor, nominating Democrat Josh Stein and Republican Mark Robinson for what is shaping up as the most closely watched gubernatorial race of the year.
With 8% of ballots counted, Stein had won 72% of the Democratic primary vote, while Robinson captured 63% of the Republican primary vote.
North Carolina is a nominally red state that is nonetheless politically competitive.
Robinson has called public school teachers "wicked people" and has referred to survivors of school shootings as "prosti-tots."
Robinson, Cooper says, is very much like Trump, who recently called Robinson "Martin Luther King on steroids."
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