The top staffer to Mark Robinson, North Carolina’s embattled lieutenant governor, is set to resign following a CNN KFile report that Robinson made inflammatory and racist remarks on a pornography website’s message board.

Mark Robinson, the Republican nominee in the state's gubernatorial race, made his first campaign appearance Monday since a report was released alleging he made offensive and salacious comments on a pornographic website.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said Monday he was going to “go after” CNN after the network published an investigation last week about his history of disturbing online comments. The Republican nominee for governor has decried the story as “salacious tabloid trash,