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'It's absolutely getting worse': Secretaries of state targeted by Trump election lies live in fear for their safety and are desperate for protection
CNN ^ | October 26, 2021 | Isaac Dovere and Jeremy Herb

Posted on 10/27/2021 6:54:19 AM PDT by lowbridge

"I am a hunter -- and I think you should be hunted," a woman can be heard saying in a voicemail left for Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs in September. "You will never be safe in Arizona again."

Or there's the man who spit, "Die you bitch, die! Die you bitch, die!" repeatedly into the phone, in another of several dozen threatening and angry voicemails directed at the Democratic secretary of state and shared exclusively with CNN by her office.

Officials and aides in secretary of state offices in Arizona and other states targeted by former President Donald Trump in his attack on last year's election results told CNN about living in constant terror -- nervously watching the people around them at events, checking in their rearview mirrors for cars following them home and sitting up at night wondering what might happen next.

Law enforcement has never had to think much about protecting secretaries of state, let alone allocating hundreds of thousands of dollars in security, tracking and follow-up. Their jobs used to be mundane, unexciting, bureaucratic. These are small offices in a handful of states with enormous power in administering elections, from mailing ballots to overseeing voting machines to keeping track of counted votes.

None were prepared to be publicly attacked. They don't have the budgets to monitor threats, and certainly not to suddenly protect officials who never had to be protected before. No systems were in place on the state or federal level to back them up, and the Department of Justice admits that the federal government doesn't yet have the infrastructure to handle the situation.

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Most anticipate the threats will increase going into next year, with Republicans around the country making election doubt conspiracies a central plank of their campaigns,

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: hatiehobbs; jenagriswold; jocelynbenson; katiehobbs; riggedelections; secretariesofsoros; secretariesofstate; secretaryofsoros; secretaryofstate; thisisxinn; xinn
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To: lowbridge

FAKE NEWS


21 posted on 10/27/2021 7:12:53 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: lowbridge

So the insane liberals are calling them and telling them they hope they die. Sounds about normal for them.
This also sounds like the fake racial attacks that always turn out to be hoaxes.


22 posted on 10/27/2021 7:13:42 AM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: lowbridge

How’s it feel Libs being on the other side now that your vile intentions have had the light shined on your agenda?
It’s the one damn thing the FungYouFlu was good for. Outting your CRT, commie blDONTm,antifAmerica and masks/jabsforever and uber alles!


23 posted on 10/27/2021 7:13:47 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: albie

True. I do not trust CNN period. I wonder if they can even report the weather without lying about a Republican.


24 posted on 10/27/2021 7:14:21 AM PDT by Lumper20 (Get the border wall built and get back to work on the keystone.)
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To: lowbridge

I find anonymous threats to be cowardly, and I am not advocating literal assassination of our current enemies of the democracy. As a thought experiment: Had good people gotten rid of Hitler, Stalin, Mao, et al, early in their careers, would millions of innocent lives have been saved and the world made a much better place? Obviously, yes. The problem is that activity of that sort without the benefit of hindsight becomes a slippery slope.


25 posted on 10/27/2021 7:14:27 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: lowbridge

Obviously, all those deplorables and Trumps supporters need to be rounded up and isolated as they are poison to our democracy, domestic terrorists, and are most likely to be unvaccinated covid carriers.

That will fix the supply problems also. Fewer useless eaters and all.


26 posted on 10/27/2021 7:15:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: JonPreston

I believe it but...

I bet public officials get death threats and prank phone calls all the time. CNN of course is only highlighting the ones that make Trump supporters look bad and ignoring the 99.9% of the other ones.

And of course, I will also bet some if not most of these calls were made by someone in CNN’s newsroom or Democrat operatives.


27 posted on 10/27/2021 7:16:14 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: ThunderSleeps

“These anonymous threats could be, in fact almost certainly are, from democrat operatives.”

That’s my thought too. I’m not hearing much about the people behind these threats being arrested, much less convicted. And what with today’s advanced technology, it should be the simplest thing to track them down.


28 posted on 10/27/2021 7:16:15 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: ConservativeMind
Good, because too many were sponsored by Soros.

AZ Secretary of State Hobbs & her counterpart in Co Jena Griswold are both newbies & both were sponsored & endorsed by George Soros & Hillary Clinton. Both are bought & paid for and both are corrupt ... Jena Griswold is working in cahoots with Dominion Voting Systems. Dominion has their U.S, headquarters in Denver, Co ... in close proximity of Griswold's office.

29 posted on 10/27/2021 7:16:28 AM PDT by BluH2o
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To: lowbridge

I’d like to see a breakdown of those “harassed” by state and party.


30 posted on 10/27/2021 7:16:57 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: lowbridge

Bovine feces.


31 posted on 10/27/2021 7:17:10 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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To: lowbridge

Soros doing hi work on the SoS’s well.


32 posted on 10/27/2021 7:18:06 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: rktman

You don’t need one. You can include a barf tag, or you can just source it as CNN. Same thing.

I don’t take this lightly. I hate it when leftists attack our “conservative” sites like Townhall, Breitbart and, my favorite, American Thinker. However, the CNN stuff is so short and sweet, that you can watch them and all doubt is removed. Not only do they lie (remember Nick Sandmann), but they report as though their audience is in sixth grade.


33 posted on 10/27/2021 7:18:14 AM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: rktman

Now that is funny.


34 posted on 10/27/2021 7:18:33 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: Chewbarkah

DEMOCRATS/LBERALS ARE NETORIOUS FOR FLYING FALSE FLAGS.


35 posted on 10/27/2021 7:19:17 AM PDT by DOC44
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To: lowbridge

Get them a paper bag to breathe in and tell them to STFU


36 posted on 10/27/2021 7:20:39 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: lowbridge
Yet it was Republican Steve Scalise who was shot by a stark raving, far left Bernie Sanders fanatic.
And inevitably its Republicans that get shot by crazy Democrats.
37 posted on 10/27/2021 7:21:25 AM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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To: lowbridge

Does CNN really anyone still believes them?


38 posted on 10/27/2021 7:22:26 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: lowbridge

Planted “news” story so watch Schiff “investigate” this next.


39 posted on 10/27/2021 7:23:16 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: SmokingJoe

and Trump’s family receiving white powder in the mail


40 posted on 10/27/2021 7:23:47 AM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood)
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