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.

Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson referred to himself as a “Black Nazi,” disparaged Martin Luther King Jr., used antisemitic and homophobic slurs and spoke highly of slavery on a pornographic website before his entrance into politics, according to a new CNN report —as Robinson denies making the comments.