FILE -Republican Governor candidate North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson speaks at an election night event in Greensboro, N.C., March 5, 2024. In his bid to become North Carolina's first Black governor, Robinson assails government safety-net spending as a "plantation of welfare and victimhood" that he says has mired generations of Black people in "dependency" and poverty. But the firebrand lieutenant governor's political rise wouldn't have been possible without it. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton, File) FILE PHOTO
