Mark Robinson and Josh Stein have been chosen as the Republican and Democratic candidates for governor in North Carolina. Many see the race as a proxy for the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Robinson, a former factory worker who was elected in 2020 as the state’s first black lieutenant governor, is a MAGA candidate who has drawn criticism for disparaging statements in the past about LGBTQ people and Jews. Stein, who would be North Carolina’s first jewish governor if elected, is a Harvard-educated lawyer who has had a more conventional climb up North Carolina’s political ladder to become attorney general.

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