While the furor continues over a CNN report on North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s inflammatory comments on a porn website, his most prominent Republican supporter, Donald Trump, has remained conspicuously silent on the matter.

CNN’s sensational report on Thursday has shaken Robinson’s fellow Republicans and threatens to further derail his faltering gubernatorial prospects. But the Trump campaign appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the scandal. In the wake of the report, the campaign issued a statement about the importance of winning the state in November, but it did not mention the salacious details or mention Robinson.

According to CNN, between 2008 and 2012, Robinson left comments on a porn website’s message board in which he called himself a “black NAZI,” called for the return of slavery and recalled “watching” women in gym showers as a teenager, among other things. Robinson himself has said the posts were not his and suggested they were fake. He has vowed not to drop out of the race.

Although The Associated Press reported that Robinson would no longer appear with Trump at his rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Saturday, the campaign has not disavowed Robinson. Brian Hughes, a senior adviser to the Trump campaign, denied reports that the campaign had pressured Robinson to drop out of the race, and Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC News that Trump was not considering withdrawing his support for the beleaguered gubernatorial candidate.

Trump’s running mate also refused to comment on the controversy. On Friday, Vance wrote on X in response to a video showing Senator JD Vance walking past a reporter asking him about Robinson: “My comment on Mark Robinson is that Kamala Harris was the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act and because of it, many Americans can no longer afford food.”

Given the praise he has given the gubernatorial candidate in the past, Trump may now find it difficult to distance himself from Robinson. Despite Robinson’s history of anti-transgender, anti-gay, anti-abortion and anti-Semitic rhetoric, Trump has praised Robinson, calling him “better than Martin Luther King (Jr.)” and calling him an “outstanding figure.”

“I got to know him so well,” Trump said of Robinson in December.