Notwithstanding the winner, North Carolina would elect its first African-American lieutenant governor.
[28] However, Van Duyn chose not to call for a runoff, and Yvonne Holley was awarded the Democratic nomination.
[29] The Republican nominee attracted controversy in September as a result of his social media posts alleging negative Jewish influence in Hollywood, among other complaints.
[30] He claimed that the movie Black Panther was "created by an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic marxist [sic].
Robinson stood by his comments in a September interview with Raleigh news station WRAL, stating, "I don’t back up from them a bit.