Brad Raffensperger has received hundreds of threats since 2020, reports the New York Times, which dials in on another one received Monday. His campaign says a four-page handwritten "manifesto," mailed to a Mississippi sheriff's office, included his photo with the word "Boom" scrawled across his forehead. "It was obviously targeting the secretary of state," and was a "credible threat on his life," says a campaign rep; Raffensperger, the Republican secretary of state in Georgia, is running for governor there; the primary is on Tuesday. "Law enforcement has a suspect and they are actively tracking that suspect," the rep added, per NBC News.
The Times reports the letter triggered heightened security during Raffensperger's Tuesday "fly-around," which saw him stop at a number of Georgia airports. Bomb-sniffing dogs at Middle Georgia Regional Airport in Macon flagged a suspicious item in a vending machine, prompting an evacuation and the arrival of a bomb squad; officers later said it was not an explosive device but did not elaborate on what was found. The event was moved to the airport's parking lot.
Politico calls the incidents "an apparent reminder of the potent threat of political violence in the US." Raffensperger, who has faced waves of threats since rejecting President Trump's attempt to overturn Georgia's 2020 results, downplayed the disruption, saying while at the Savannah airport that his resolve was already "pretty strong."
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