A Democrat candidate in North Carolina is forcing her party to run the other way after she appeared to defend resurfaced comments calling for political violence.
The website for Shelly Headen’s campaign says she is a mom, a neighbor, and an advocate, but on social media she advocated for a military strike against many of those neighbors.
When asked about the extremist insults, Headen compared herself to Jesus Christ.
Headen is running for North Carolina’s state House District 62 without the support of her party after the comments went public.
“I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil … preferably Alabama, Louisiana … where the stupid people live,” Headen wrote in one post, according to the Carolina Journal.
Another comment said the “MAGA cult may be more
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