A Trump campaign staffer received a bomb threat at the Montco GOP headquarters

A person who works at the Montgomery County Republican Committee headquarters in Blue Bell received a call Saturday morning from someone threatening to blow up the office, according to the committee’s chairman.

The “fairly non-normative” challenge was “something like, ‘I’m going to blow this place up,'” said Christian Nascimento, chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party. And the caller also said, “I’ll be waiting to shoot you when you leave tonight.”

A campaign staffer for former President Donald Trump was alone in the office the county party shares with campaign headquarters when he got a call shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday. Out of “an abundance of caution,” the office closed, Nascimento said.

Election Day was less than two weeks away, he said, so some staffers arrived several hours later to print materials. “I hope people aren’t numb to (threats of political violence), but I think people continue to soldier on,” he said.

The Pennsylvania Republican Party said the call was reported to local police, the FBI and Gov. Josh Shapiro’s election threat task force.

The call was the latest incident of intimidation reported by the Pennsylvania Republican Party. According to the Delaware County Republican Party, protesters cornered and harassed volunteers at media headquarters a little over two weeks ago. The Pennsylvania Republican Party said a Philadelphia man threatened to kill an Erie County Republican Party worker in September.

After two assassination attempts on the former president, his campaign made everyone work practically, Nascimento said.

Saturday’s caller “seems a little crazy,” he said, but “you can’t be too careful.”

Nascimento said that in the final days of the presidential campaign, he “hopes we can lower the temperature” and “everyone can focus on working for their candidate.”

In a statement, Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Lawrence Tabas said “there must be unanimous agreement that political violence has no place in our elections.”

“We strongly urge the people of Pennsylvania to make their voices heard through voting,” he said, “not through violence and intimidation.”