North Carolina Atty. Gen. Josh Stein was elected governor on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and maintaining Democratic leadership of the chief executive’s office in a state where Republicans have recently controlled the legislature ...

By Eduardo Medina Reporting from Raleigh, N.C. Josh Stein, North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general, won the governor’s race in the state, according to The Associated Press. He defeated Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, a Republican who had been widely ...

Democratic state Attorney General Josh Stein will win North Carolina’s gubernatorial race, CNN projects, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whose campaign struggled as his history of incendiary remarks became public.