North Carolina Republican Gov. Mark Robinson suffered burns Friday night while attending a truck show while campaigning for governor, his campaign said.

Robinson was appearing at the Mayberry Truck Show in Mount Airy when he was struck, campaign spokesman Mike Lonergan said in a statement.

Robinson was treated at Northern Regional Hospital in Mount Airy for second-degree burns, he added.

“He is in good spirits, appreciates the outpouring of well wishes, and is excited to get back on the campaign trail as scheduled first thing” Saturday morning, Lonergan said.

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Lonergan did not immediately respond to texts requesting details about how and where the burns occurred. Robinson made campaign stops starting Friday morning with Republicans in Moore County. He has four stops scheduled for Saturday.

Robinson, lieutenant governor since 2021, is running against Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein, the current attorney general. Incumbent Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, has been barred from running this fall because of term limits.

Many Republicans have recently distanced themselves from Robinson after the Sept. 19 election CNN report Alleging that he posted strongly racist and sexist comments on an online message board. Dozens of staffers on his campaign or in the lieutenant governor’s office They resigned in the fallout from the report.

Robinson, who has faced criticism for other inflammatory comments, has denied writing the letters for more than a decade and has hired a law firm to investigate.

Located about 161 kilometers north of Charlotte near the Virginia border, Mount Airy is where the late television star Andy Griffith grew up. The community served as the inspiration for the fictional town of Mayberry in The Andy Griffith Show which aired during the 1960s. City leaders have embraced this history through tributes and festivals associated with the parade.