Mark Robinson’s campaign implosion could be a Carolina miracle for Kamala Harris

It’s a four-alarm fire at GOP headquarters in North Carolina, but nobody’s bringing any water.

With the election a little more than a month out, Republicans in the Tar Heel state are facing an unimaginable crisis: a nominee for the highest elected office on the ballot this year (with the exception of the presidential ticket) who is, to put it mildly, a disaster. Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, is undergoing a full-scale campaign collapse triggered by a CNN investigation into his past.

The details of the investigation were made public last Thursday: Robinson, an anti-transgender, anti-gay conservative culture warrior was linked through an email address and screenname to posts on a porn site called “Nude Africa” in which he allegedly described shocking and graphic sexual acts while referring to himself as a “Black Nazi”.

Robinson denied making the comments in a video message. Meanwhile, conservative operatives working in the state say the allegations were floating around as rumors for weeks if not months before being made public — with receipts.

Over the weekend, Robinson’s campaign imploded. A statement from the Robinson campaign on Sunday confirmed the resignation of virtually all senior staff, while a report from WUNC subsequently revealed that just three paid staffers remained on the Robinson campaign as of that evening. The state’s sitting lieutenant governor, endorsed for office by Donald Trump and the state’s Republican Party, was heading into this week without a campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, or virtually anyone else beyond a spokesman.

Things got even weirder Sunday evening as serial fraudster Jack Burkman tweeted that he was taking over Robinson’s campaign. Reporters quickly