NC gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson has been hospitalized after an “incident” at a campaign rally

North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson was hospitalized after an “incident” at a campaign rally on Friday night, Fox News Digital confirmed.

It happened when Robinson attended the Mayberry Truck Show in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.

“Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson was treated for second-degree burns at Northern Regional Hospital. “He is in good spirits, appreciates the outpouring of well-wishes and looks forward to returning to the campaign trail tomorrow morning as planned,” Mike Lonergan, Robinson’s campaign communications director, told Fox News Digital.

It is unclear exactly how Robinson was burned.

NC gubernatorial candidate MARK ROBINSON hires pro-Trump lawyer to investigate porn website allegations

Robinson, the current Republican lieutenant governor, is running against Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein to replace Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in the battlefield state, was recently accused of making controversial comments on a porn website.

Robinson denies the allegations. He hired a lawyer who had previously worked for former President Trump. Northern Virginia-based Binnall Law Group is investigating claims made in a CNN report published earlier this week.

“Normally an investigation like this, conducted by the Justice Department and the FBI, would take months or years,” Binnall previously told Fox News Digital. “We can’t do that in this case because voters need an answer before the election. So we will act very quickly and still provide them with a very detailed report.”

“He absolutely denies saying anything that was in the CNN piece,” Binnall said of Robinson. “What my investigation will do is make us follow the facts. We will investigate this vigorously. We will leave no stone unturned. We will be very, very aggressive. And the citizens of North Carolina deserve nothing less than a full investigation into this matter, and that is what we will do.”

It is unclear how Robinson was burned. (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)

The CNN report Comments surfaced that Robinson allegedly made on a porn site message board more than a decade ago, including describing himself as a “black Nazi”; said he enjoyed transgender pornography; in 2012, he said he preferred Hitler to then-President Barack Obama; and criticizing the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot.”

Robinson has denied saying those words, but Republicans have begun distancing themselves from the candidate who, if elected, would be North Carolina’s first black governor. Trump did not mention Robinson, whom he endorsed before the March primary and who has spoken at other Trump events during the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign Rally in Wilmington, North CarolinaSaturday.

“The allegations against me are outright lies fabricated to distract voters from Josh Stein’s disastrous record,” Robinson previously said in a statement to Fox News Digital about the investigation. “The great people of North Carolina deserve the truth, and I am fully committed to ensuring they receive it with complete transparency.”

Danielle Wallace of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.

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