North Carolina's Republican candidate for governor is at the center of a national news story. That's because of the salacious nature of a series of posts by Mark Robinson, unearthed by CNN, from a pornography web site's discussion board.

A North Carolina loss could not only foil Trump’s re-election chances, it would be a particular home-state humiliation for his two handpicked co-chairs of the Republican National Committee: Michael Whatley, who is the state’s former GOP chair, and Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, who is a North Carolina native.