A Democrat running for the state legislature in battleground North Carolina remains on the ballot despite her party publicly abandoning her after inflammatory social media posts she made resurfaced.The North Carolina House Democratic Caucus and a county party group both condemned posts by Shelly Headen in which the legislative candidate called for an attack on U.S.soil targeting red states, and compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.But Headen remains a candidate because the filing deadline to drop out of the race was Aug.
20, and the general election ballots are finalized and were sent out to voters starting on Sept.4.Headen, who is challenging Republican state Rep.
John Blust for the House District 62 seat in Greensboro-anchored Guilford County, posted a year ago, "I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil … preferably Alabama, Louisiana … where the stupid people live."WATCH: HUGH HEWITT'S TAKE ON THE HEADEN CONTROVERSYIn separate posts, she argued that the damage done by Trump was "getting close to surpassing Hitler," and claimed that the "MAGA cult may be more destructive and evil than the Nazis."Breitbart reported that a Facebook post by Headen which pictured her at a memorial at the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp in Germany, where tens of thousands of people were murdered during World War II, with the words, "This is where Trump supporters belong."Headen denied last week to the Greensboro News and Record that she posted the concentration camp image, and said she believed the image was edited to include the words over a real photo.Her old comments grabbed new national attention earlier this week when the White House Rapid Response account that supports Trump shared them on X and charged that Democrats "ARE SICK PEOPLE!"DEMOCRACY ’26: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUBThe Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany was one of the first built by the Nazis.The Dachau Memorial Site archive has documented 32,000 deaths at the c...