Nov 5 (Reuters) - Democrat Josh Stein won the North Carolina governor's race on Tuesday, Fox News projected, defeating Republican Mark Robinson ... while neither party appeared to have an edge in the battle for the House of Representatives.

North Carolina Attorney General and Democratic candidate Josh Stein is projected to win the state's gubernatorial election on Tuesday night.

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina voters choosing a successor to term-limited Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper were deciding Tuesday between an attorney general who would carry on Cooper’s policies and a lieutenant governor whose blunt speaking style and working-class history favored him among hardline conservatives.

Two outgoing members of Congress who also served in the state legislature were vying Tuesday for the post of North Carolina attorney general, a closely watched race for a job that has gained increasing prominence in states across the country.

ELLERBE, N.C. (AP) — Addressing over 100 supporters outside an ice cream stand that’s shaped like a giant strawberry, North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson battered his Democratic rival for governor and the media, and said he’d keep fighting as their race neared its conclusion.

North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general Josh Stein will be the next governor of the state after beating embattled Republican lieutenant governor Mark Robinson, who trailed Mr. Stein in the polls for months before a CNN report found that he had allegedly written about being a Nazi and liking “tranny porn” on a salacious message board website more than ten years ago.

North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) will become the next governor of the state, defeating controversial Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), Decision Desk HQ projects. Stein’s win does not come as a surprise.