North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson has avoided directly weighing in during a gubernatorial campaign event on a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website's message board more than a decade ago.

If Donald Trump wishes to win North Carolina, he’ll need to win voters like Mike Mowatt. In many ways, Mowatt is the prototype swing voter in this swing state: He’s retired, and North Carolina will have more 65-and-up voters this cycle than ever.