Deadline passed Friday morning for candidate to leave state’s gubernatorial race, following CNN story

North Carolina’s Republican candidate for governor, Mark Robinson, was still in the race for governor on Friday morning after the deadline passed overnight for him to withdraw or be removed from the ballot.

Robinson has faced increase pressure to drop out from the gubernatorial race after a damning CNN story published Thursday afternoon reported that he made lewd and sexually explicit comments on the pornography site Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012.