Arizona congressional candidate says she was raped and thinks it may have been a politically motivated attack

A Democratic congressional candidate in Arizona said she was raped in August while out fixing campaign signs along a road in the Phoenix metropolitan area, and she thinks the attack may have been politically motivated.

Bernadette Greene-Placentia, 52, told the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office that she was returning to her car around 2 a.m. on Aug. 14 in Sun City when she was struck in the back of the head and raped by a man, according to an incident report obtained by NBC News. She said a second man also climbed on top of her before she tried to fight him off.