The party is prohibited from selecting a replacement who already ran in the same race in this year’s primary. That means State Treasurer Dale Folwell and attorney Bill Graham would not be allowed to replace Robinson.

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-NC) is denying allegations against him, including that he called himself a “black nazi” and used racist, antisemitic, and homophobic slurs on a pornography site’s message board.