Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) has detailed the extreme safety precaution his wife felt compelled to take after receiving anonymous, threatening text messages following Bacon’s refusal to back Rep. Jim Jordan’s (R-Ohio) bid for House speaker.
“She had terrible phone calls,” Bacon told reporters on Thursday, per The Hill. “I didn’t sleep well last night. I called her, and I go, ‘How you doing?’ She goes, ‘I slept really good. I had a loaded gun.’”
She later received the menacing phone calls, per Bacon.
Other Republicans have reported receiving chilling abuse for not backing Jordan.
Reps. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) have reported death threats.
Jordan, who backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, has condemned the threatening messages.