NC Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was treated for second-degree burns after touching exhaust pipe at campaign event

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was handled for second-degree burns Friday after he burned his hand on a “huge rig” he was driving in on the Mayberry Truck Present and Parade in Mount Ethereal, he instructed supporters at a Saturday marketing campaign occasion.

“I used to be getting out of the truck and a number of other of my followers and supporters had been coming across the truck. I used to be making an attempt to get out with out operating into them and doggone if I didn’t lay my hand on that tailpipe, the exhaust pipe,” Robinson stated, exhibiting his bandaged hand. “I’m positive. It’s only a minor second-degree burn, and it’s simply positive.”

Mike Lonergan, Robinson’s gubernatorial marketing campaign communications director, stated Friday night time Robinson was handled for the burns at Northern Regional Hospital “following an incident at a marketing campaign occasion.”

Lonergan added within the assertion that Robinson “is in good spirits, appreciates the outpouring of nicely needs, and is worked up to return to the marketing campaign path as scheduled very first thing tomorrow morning.”

Robinson, North Carolina’s Republican nominee for governor, had made a number of marketing campaign stops across the state on Friday, in keeping with a beforehand supplied schedule and social media posts. His last cease was the Mayberry Truck Present and Parade in Mount Ethereal, the place the incident occurred.

NewsNation was first to report his hospitalization, which a supply near his marketing campaign confirmed to CNN earlier Friday night time.

Robinson’s hospitalization comes amid continued fallout from CNN’s reporting on the lieutenant governor’s previous inflammatory feedback on a pornography web site’s message board.

Many distinguished Republicans sought to distance themselves from Robinson within the aftermath, together with former President Donald Trump, who didn’t point out Robinson throughout a current marketing campaign cease in North Carolina regardless of having beforehand endorsed him.

Nationwide Republican teams have additionally pulled monetary help for Robinson as a number of of his marketing campaign officers have stepped down and his prime staffer is about to resign.

Because the embattled candidate continues to marketing campaign, a brand new CNN ballot exhibits that the race is slipping away from Robinson. The ballot, launched Friday and carried out by SSRS after CNN KFile’s reporting was printed, confirmed Democrat Josh Stein main Robinson 53% to 36% amongst doubtless voters.

This story has been up to date with further reporting.

CNN’s Josh Campbell and Kaanita Iyer contributed to this report.