"This is Martin Luther King on steroids," Trump said of the Republican North Carolina gubernatorial candidate in March.

Donald Trump’s campaign declined to comment Thursday on whether North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, whom the former president once described as “Martin Luther King on steroids,” should drop out of the battleground state’s race for governor.

Presidential candidates typically focus much of their travel on battleground states, but Donald Trump is taking his message to a somewhat unlikely place: suburban New York.