Dems abandon candidate who said MAGA 'more destructive' than Nazis, but she’s stuck on the ballot

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...