GOP headquarters in North Carolina firebombed

A Donald Trump sign.
(Image credit: Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Unknown vandals threw a firebomb through the window of a GOP office in Hillsborough, North Carolina, early Sunday and spray painted a swastika and the words "Nazi Republicans get out of town or else" on an adjacent building, local officials said.

Hillary Clinton's campaign tweeted Sunday that the attack was "horrific and unacceptable. Very grateful that everyone is safe." Lacking any evidence, Donald Trump sent out his own tweet, saying, "animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning." An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released Friday found Clinton leading Trump by 4 points in North Carolina.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.