Home Part of States Newsroom
Brief
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, UNC fraternity members set to speak at Republican convention

Share

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, UNC fraternity members set to speak at Republican convention

By Galen Bacharier
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, UNC fraternity members set to speak at Republican convention
Description
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (L) and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) have speaking roles at the Republican National Convention. (File photos)

North Carolina’s Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, as well as UNC fraternity members, will take the stage in Milwaukee this week at the Republican National Convention.

Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor, joins a significant delegation of Republican members of Congress, candidates and allies of former President Donald Trump as headliners for the four-day event.

The convention will proceed as planned. Trump will be in attendance after an assassination attempt Saturday in Pennsylvania that injured the former president, killed one attendee and critically hurt two others.

North Carolina’s U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, who chairs House Republicans’ campaign arm, will also speak during the convention.

It is unclear how the weekend’s events may reshape the tone and tenor of the remarks planned by Robinson and Hudson. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have condemned the act of political violence.

Among the list of “everyday American” speakers for the RNC are a group of UNC-Chapel Hill fraternity members.

The students garnered national attention when they circled around an American flag on the campus’ main quad during a pro-Palestinian student protest.

A GoFundMe launched to support the students raised more than half a million dollars. (As a result, an “epic rager” is in the works for Labor Day in Chapel Hill.)

Also set to speak is Annette Alright, who previously and unsuccessfully ran for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board.

She was accused of having ties to the local Republican Party during the 2023 campaign, and ultimately finished sixth out of 14 candidates. The Charlotte Observer reported that she was registered as unaffiliated, but shared a P.O. Box and treasurer with other GOP politicians and PACs.

The Trump campaign describes Albright as a “lifelong Democrat” who will now be backing the former president.