As politicians accuse each other of fanning the flames in Minnesota with dangerous rhetoric, the debate is hitting close to home for members of Congress.
In the same week that Capitol Police announced another rise in threat cases, a man sprayed an unknown substance at Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., as she was holding a town hall meeting in her district. That came after Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost, D-Fla., separately described being punched in the face by a man he said was “screaming racist remarks.”
“It’s unfortunate,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Wednesday when asked about the Omar incident and rising threats. “Everybody in the country at every level needs to do what they can to just kind of dial down the temperature.”
