North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, said he would stay in the race and denied new accusations that he posted racist, antigay and inflammatory comments on a pornography-website message board more than a decade ago.

North Carolina Republican gubernatorial nominee Mark Robinson has vowed to remain in his race despite a CNN media report about comments it says he made on a website.

Trump has yet to speak out as Robinson faces pressures to exit the North Carolina gubernatorial race after reports of his past messages to an adult website.

Mr. Robinson, the Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina, vowed to stay in the race and sought to deny the report, which also said he had defended slavery in online posts years ago.

Amid allegations of posting disturbing comments on pornographic websites, candidate for North Carolina Governor Mark Robinson is down in the polls.

Donald Trump’s campaign declined to comment Thursday on whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor.

Trump-backed candidate Mark Robinson says he’s staying in the race for North Carolina governor following an investigation by CNN finding Robinson made dozens of disturbing comments on a porn site—including one where he declared himself a “Black Nazi.