North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who would be the state’s first Black governor if elected, called the report a “high-tech lynching” on a candidate “who has been targeted from Day 1 by folks who disagree with me politically and want to see me destroyed.

North Carolina‘s Republican Governor candidate Mark Robinson has taken legal action against CNN, filing a significant defamation lawsuit. The lawsuit revolves around claims made by the network in a recent report,

CNN reported Robinson allegedly made comments on a pornography site's message board years ago, which included calling himself a "black NAZI."