This story was originally published by the WND News Center.

Democrats often use insults, like calling President Trump "Hitler" and his supporters "Nazis," and attacks to campaign against political opponents.

Sometimes it works, but for a city council candidate in Montana, it failed spectacularly.

It is Haley McKnight, who notoriously became famous when an expletive-filled voicemail she left for Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., came to light, who lost.

McKnight, who later claimed her rage was justified, got only 20% of the vote. There were two city council seats available and Melinda Reed got 36.5% and Ben Rigby 31.2%.

A report from Fox News said her voicemail came over the summer, after Sheehy voted with Republicans to pass Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a tax and spending package that angered McKnight and other Democrats.

WND had reported on the voicemail, a vicious verbal assault on Sheehy.

Editor's Note: Be aware of offensive language from McKnight.

On social media, commenters responded to McKnight with:

"This voicemail raises issues of potential criminal threats, harassment, and civil liabilities, especially, given McKnight's public role as a candidate."

And, "We're gonna need a bigger mental institution."

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, who has a book addressing the issue, "The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage," commented on the current trend among mostly leftists for "unmitigated hate speech."

McKnight hopes for Sheehy, death, cancer, more death, and yes, more death.

Turley noted in Virginia the Democratic candidate for attorney general, Jay Jones, admitted that he previously expressed a desire to kill a political opponent and his children.

McNight's rant include: "Hi, this is Haley McKnight. I'm a constituent in Helena, Montana. I just wanted to let you know that you are the most insufferable kind of coward and thief. You just stripped away health care for 17 million Americans, and I hope you're really proud of that. I hope that one day you get pancreatic cancer, and it spreads throughout your body so fast that they can't even treat you for it."

She then descended into a "litany" of insults about fertility, Sheehy's children, and threatened the senator not to "meet me on the streets.

"I hope you die in the street like a dog. One day, you're going to live to regret this. I hope that your children never forgive you. I hope that you are infertile. I hope that you manage to never get a boner ever again. You are the worst piece of s*** I have ever, ever, ever had the misfortune of looking at … God forbid that you ever meet me on the streets because I will make you regret it. F*** you. I hope you die…All that you have done since you have gotten into power is do s*** for yourself."

Turley noted that McKnight, of course, blamed "conservatives" for making public her threats.

She claimed, "I was responding to some horrible policy with some justified rage." And she blamed the senator for not responding to her call.

Sheehy spokeswoman Jack O'Brien said, "We hope Ms. McKnight gets the help she clearly needs."

She has been described as a "progressive" and records show she's donated money to a Democrat.

Despite McKnight's failure Democrats claimed victories in a handful of races this week, including for New York City mayor, where "democrat socialist" Zohran Mamdani, advocating for a number of communist action points, won election.