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Police arrested a Libertarian North Carolina state Senate candidate Monday after an hours-long armed standoff near a private school, ending a tense confrontation that unfolded as the candidate posted threatening messages on social media.

Jonathan Miller, a Libertarian challenging a Democratic incumbent for a North Carolina state Senate seat, raised widespread concern Monday when he began making cryptic and viral posts on X suggesting that he was in the process of an armed pursuit with law enforcement.

"The whole police department is chasing me with guns drawn. This should be fun," he wrote around 9:38 a.m. "I've got six shots and the high ground.…