Voters in North Carolina's House District 62 have narrowly elected a Democrat who publicly fantasized about political opponents being sent to concentration camps and called for attacks on conservative states.
Democrat Shelly Headen unseated incumbent Republican John Blust on Tuesday in a district Republicans had held for more than twenty years, according to The Gateway Pundit. The margin was just 233 votes, placing the race within North Carolina's 1 percent recount threshold, and Blust may request a recount after county results are certified on November 13, though such reversals are historically rare.
Headen's victory comes despite a series of deeply disturbing social media posts that resurfaced during the campaign. In September, Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation that showed her in front of ovens at the Dachau concentration camp memorial in Germany, where the memorial records that the Nazis murdered 41,500 Jewish people.
The caption she chose was explicit in its contempt for conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump. The post accompanying the story says, "Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany This is where Trump supporters belong."
Her rhetoric did not stop there. In another post, Headen wrote, "I think our only hope is an attack on US Soil preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live."
The comments were so extreme that even her own party apparatus tried to distance itself from her candidacy. The North Carolina House Democratic Caucus condemned the posts and announced it would no longer support her campaign.
Headen has said on her Facebook page that she is a CPA and business owner who is "running to restore human decency." She has also faced credible domestic assault allegations involving her husband, and Breitbart previously noted two apparent 2024 law-enforcement incident reports listing her as the suspect in incidents involving her husband.
Yet despite the violent rhetoric, the alleged abuse, and the repudiation from her own caucus, North Carolina voters elected Headen anyway.
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