Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, the Republican nominee for governor, vowed to stay in the race and pre-emptively denied the CNN report, which described years-old online remarks it said he made.

North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor promised to stay in the race on Thursday after CNN reported that he once called himself a "black NAZI!" and proposed bringing back slavery in comments posted on a pornography website.

Mr. Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, vowed to stay in the race and sought to deny the report, which also said he had defended slavery in online posts years ago.

The North Carolina gubernatorial nominee, known for his sexist and transphobic rhetoric, also allegedly spied on women in showers and digs transgender porn.

A few hours later, CNN’s KFile reported that he had an account on a porn site called “Nude Africa” where the anti-transgender conservative admitted that “I like watching tranny on girl porn !” The social conservative,

CNN unearthed sexually explicit and fascist comments posted by the gubernatorial candidate under the handle minisoldr on the Nude Africa forum. That username has been used extensively by Robinson across the internet.

Robinson reportedly made the comments between 2008 and 2012 under the username “minisoldr,” and CNN says it identified the user as Robinson through his email address, biograph

Mark Robinson isn't giving in to pressure to drop out of the North Carolina governor race amid CNN's explosive report that he made inflammatory and sexually explicit comments on a pornography website's message board.