Four secretaries of state say they’ve received death threats since 2020 election

Four secretaries of state said they've received death threats for doing their jobs — namely overseeing elections — since Donald Trump left office in 2021.

During an interview on Meet the Press on Sunday, Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said the death threats amount to «domestic terrorism.»

“Threatsagainst elections officials in the United States of America is domestic terrorism. Terrorism is defined as a threat or violence for a political outcome. That’s what this is,” Mr Fontes said during the program.

He was joined by three other secretaries of state on the Sunday news show, from Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

Mr Fontes said he and other threatened secretaries of state have been working with law enforcement and the Department of Justice to bring awareness to the threats they receive. He said he has prepared to go into hiding, even going so far as to prepare «go bags» in case he needs to flee his home and coordinating with neighbors and family to watch his children if he has to leave.

Joyce Benson, Michigan's Secretary of State, said the threats against election officials are intended to «delegitimize democracy.»

“It’s about instilling fear — instilling fear into us as professionals, in our local election officials, and instilling fear in voters,” she said.

Elections officials across the country began receiving threats in the wake of the 2020 election, thanks in large part to Mr Trump's insistence that the election had not been secured and that he should have been the victor.

Mr Trump's false claim that the election was stolen eventually led to the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters.

“It’s really scary when people show up with guns outside your home in the middle of the