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

Robinson faced increasing pressure to drop out of the gubernatorial race after a scathing CNN report was released Thursday afternoon saying he made offensive and sexually explicit comments on the porn site Nude Africa between 2008 and 2012.

Pressure for Robinson to resign came from North Carolina Republicans and also from Donald Trump’s campaign team after the Republican presidential candidate enthusiastically endorsed Robinson, the Carolina Journal reported. Trump had previously praised Robinson, calling the black gubernatorial candidate “Martin Luther King on steroids” during a campaign rally this year.

The campaign team of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris wasted no time in publishing Trump’s praise for Robinson, in which he called him a friend and “one of the hottest politicians in the United States” and a compilation of pictures of the two together with the caption “best friends”.

Trump is expected to hold a rally in North Carolina on Saturday, but it was not known Friday morning whether Robinson would attend.

Robinson has promised to continue his campaign and deny the CNN report in advance.

According to the CNN report, Robinson had previously referred to himself as a “black Nazi” in a comment. In another 2012 remark, Robinson said he would have preferred Adolf Hitler as U.S. president over then-President Barack Obama.

Robinson also wrote that slavery should be reinstated. “Slavery is not bad. Some people have to be slaves. I wish they would reinstate (slavery). I would certainly buy a few,” he wrote in October 2010.

Robinson also allegedly made several sexual comments on the porn website, CNN reported, claiming that he enjoyed “peeping” into the locker room of a women’s gym when he was younger.

The Associated Press contributed to the reporting