NC Gov: I Dropped Out Of Veepstakes Over Lt Gov

From an interview with Politico:

In North Carolina, we have in our constitution — back from the wagon wheel days — a provision that says when the governor leaves the state, the lieutenant governor becomes the acting governor. Many states across the country have this provision. You had no way to communicate. Back then, it made sense.

There have been a few cases across the country that have said, “Look, now with text and phone and email and Zoom and ways to communicate, this doesn’t make sense for this to be the case.” And courts have ruled that it doesn’t literally mean that. North Carolina courts have not ruled that, however, and fairly recently, Republicans have taken over the North Carolina Supreme Court. They have made some extremely partisan decisions here lately, particularly regarding voting and redistricting.

Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor, is the most extreme statewide candidate in the country right now. I was on a recruiting trip to Japan. He did claim he was acting governor. He did a big proclamation and press conference while I was gone. It was something about support for the state of Israel. It was obviously to make up for all of his antisemitic comments that he’d made, his denial of the Holocaust that he’d made over the years. But it was a big distraction. We analyzed this.

Read the full article. He says more about Robinson’s extremism near the bottom of the linked interview.

Why Roy Cooper Didn’t Want to Be Vetted for Vice President https://t.co/4ELmJYELlM via @politico

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