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North Carolina Senate Candidate Threatens Suicide During Live Post
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In Short: A Libertarian candidate for North Carolina's state Senate threatened suicide and live-posted a standoff with police.
A Libertarian candidate for North Carolina's state Senate, Miller, posted on X Sunday night that he intended to take his own life, leading to a tense standoff with local police.
Police pursued Miller for hours, and during that time, he posted updates on X, the New York Post reported.
Miller and Republican candidate Philip Hensley are running for North Carolina State Senate District 16, represented by Democratic state Sen. Gale Adcock, in the general election.
The suspect said he posted a suicide note on X that went viral late Sunday and caught the attention of local residents who reported it to the police in Cary, North Carolina.
As police searched for him, Miller told the station that he had been 'pretty depressed and suicidal,' the Washington Examiner reported.
The North Carolina Beat and the Washington Examiner quoted a police source who said, 'really probably should get some more training on tracking somebody down,' suggesting the handling of the situation could have been improved.
In the midst of these events, President Donald Trump is pushing his favored candidate, Ken Paxton, in the North Carolina Senate race, despite a growing rift within the Republican Party.
Meanwhile, in Alaska, Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola and her family suffered minor injuries Saturday in a car crash while driving to a campaign stop, her campaign said.
Peltola’s campaign manager, Cheryl Bruce, wrote in a statement that the candidate was in 'good spirits' following the accident, but her medical providers recommended she reschedule events Sunday and Monday to recover.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Peltola campaign staffers and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee were allegedly involved in a monthslong scheme to stack the ballot with candidates and recruit other men named Dan Sullivan, all in the hopes of siphoning off votes from the Republican incumbent.
The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit to block certification of the U.S. Senate race in Alaska if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses the contest while another candidate with the same name is on the ballot.
The lawsuit has sparked fears of a lengthy battle between the government and states over certifying an election where the president's party is struggling.
What this adds
WarpBeat previously reported on the North Carolina Senate candidate's suicide threat and live-posting standoff with police.
President Trump is also pushing his favored candidate in the South Carolina Senate race, despite a growing rift within the Republican Party.
Background
A Libertarian candidate for North Carolina's state Senate, Miller, posted on X Sunday night that he intended to take his own life, leading to a tense standoff with local police.
President Donald Trump is pushing his favored candidate, Darline Graham, in the South Carolina Senate race, despite a growing rift within the Republican Party.
What's confirmed
- Trump called El-Sayed, a former Detroit health official, a "jihadist" who was "on the side of the terrorists" and would "have to go through a metal detector before he's allowed to go into the Senate."
What's still developing
- Pulling COVID-19 vaccines off the market, decreasing medications for children, cleaning up water, and putting fresh food in schools are all “pro-life issues,” according to Iowa Republican gubernatorial candidate Zach Lahn.
- The leftist candidate was also recently questioned over his ties to Soros, and although he promised to get money out of politics, he is “secretly benefitting from over $15 million from those associated with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,” Breitbart News reported last week.
- Candidates for governor are on the ballot in 39 states, along with some high-profile measures like California's proposed billionaire tax.
- Watch: Moment Trump accuses El-Sayed of being a "jihadist" US President Donald Trump is facing a backlash after invoking 9/11 as part of a verbal assault on Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic candidate for the US Senate in Michigan.
- The group allegedly failed to deliver on its promises, and the victim lost “more than €1.1 million.” The former presidential candidate is already facing two other criminal cases: one over allegedly acting against Romania’s constitutional order by planning a violent coup, and another over allegedly promoting fascist ideology.
- The paper said it had seen text messages and interviewed 12 people who participated in or were told of the plan, or were would-be candidates who the team tried to recruit.
- Polls showed her losing in 2020 and she gutted out a win.
- "Common-sense voters across red-leaning battlegrounds are preparing to reject the dangerously unaffordable agendas of Abdul El-Sayed [in Michigan], Troy Jackson [in Maine], and Mary Peltola—along with the Democrat Party's dying brand."
- "Senate Democrats' socialist surge has reached a fever pitch, and their desperate conspiracies to defraud voters appear criminal," said Bernadette Breslin, national press secretary for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the counterpart to the DSCC.
- "He's going to become your senator," Trump said during a stop in North Carolina earlier this month, "and it's crazy." 2024: TRUMP +3 Republicans' best pick-up opportunity, this race will test whether a bold progressive can win in a purple state with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's candidacy.
- Scott Golden, the chair of the Tennessee Republican Party, told Newsweek there are “legitimate issues on both sides” of the data center debate.
- “It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan to run against our distinguished Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, in order to defraud, confuse, and obfuscate the Election, thereby taking votes away from the REAL Senator, Dan Sullivan,” Trump wrote on Wednesday.