RALEIGH — Leading Republican politicians in North Carolina have joined the condemnation of presidential candidate Donald Trump’s crude sexist remarks that surfaced in an 11-year-old recording Friday night.

They did not go so far as to call on him to end his candidacy, however, as some GOP lawmakers have done in other states.

Gov. Pat McCrory, who appeared at a rally for Trump in Winston-Salem this summer, issued a statement late Friday:

“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the comments made by Donald Trump regarding women,” McCrory said. “I find them disgusting.”

Another Trump supporter, U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, denounced the remarks, according to a Politico reporter who quoted him on Twitter: “The comments are inappropriate and completely unacceptable.”

McCrory and Burr are in close re-election campaigns.

State House Speaker Tim Moore tweeted: “I strongly condemn Donald Trump’s comments. This is completely unacceptable.”

Trump was recorded on tape bragging about kissing and groping women and trying to have sex with them, despite being married. The Washington Post and NBC News obtained copies of the tape.