Jena Griswold received 64 death threats and more than 900 threats of abuse within three weeks of the case being filed to keep Trump off the state ballot.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Wednesday she is ā€œextremely concernedā€ about fanatical supporters of Donald Trump becoming violent in response to the state Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on Coloradoā€™s 2024 presidential primary ballot.

ā€œIā€™ve been concerned about violence and threats of violence since Donald Trump incited the insurrection,ā€ Griswold, who has been Coloradoā€™s Democratic secretary of state since 2019, said in an interview. ā€œIā€™ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point.ā€

Sheā€™s faced an astounding uptick in threats amid the lawsuit over Trumpā€™s eligibility to appear on the state ballot, even though she has nothing to do with it. The case, which was brought in September by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was filed by six unaffiliated and Republican voters in Colorado.

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    9 months ago

    Thatā€™s blood in the water you donā€™t want to encourage. These people will not learn, they are just a minority view that needs to be outvoted and reversed. Unfortunately the reason why theyā€™re able to act as if theyā€™re not a minority is largely because they receive very little meaningful criticism across media. The vulgarity of a statement receiving the same exact cycle of pearl clutching as the fascistic or authoritarian nature statements makes it all seem meaningless between the few good shows like Mehdi Hasan (and heā€™s gone nowā€¦)

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        9 months ago

        Thereā€™s a lot of things that make it appear that way, but statistically they are the vocal minority opinion. Young people voting in the same percentage of old people would make this very clear, but that isnā€™t likely or maybe even possible in states with highly restrictive voting avenues.