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Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:51 PM Apr 2016

Trump supporters ( including Roger Stone) making direct *death threats* to GOP delegates.

TPM

John and Indiana Republicans quoted in the Politico story have been receiving threatening messages, according to the Indy Star, in which they were warned their personal information and their families’ would be released to the public.

“Think before you take a step down the wrong path, the American people want to have faith in your but it looks like a future in hiding is more appealing,” one message said, according to the Star. The state police have even begun reviewing the messages, the Star reported Tuesday In Colorado -- where the Cruz campaign’s success in securing loyal delegates earned inflammatory headlines on the Drudge Report -- the state GOP chair said he has been receiving death threats after an anonymous Trump fan tweeted his personal information and the personal information of other party officials.

“300 phone calls with many being the trashiest you can imagine over a tweet we didn’t send and because a candidate didn't speak at our convention when we tried very hard to get him there," Colorado GOP Chair Steve House wrote on his Facebook page, according to a screenshot captured by Right Scoop that was confirmed by a Colorado GOP spokesperson. "Shame on the people who somehow think it is right to threaten me and my family over not liking the outcome of an election.”

A representative of one of the other Colorado officials whose information was blasted out told TPM it had been a “stressful 24 hours” for the official.

In Tennessee, local police monitored the state GOP convention to choose its 14 delegates earlier this month, according to a report by the Times Free Press. Party officials confirmed to the outlet that there were death threats ahead of the contest including one that "involved trying to hang people.

Roger Stone, a former adviser to Trump, suggested he would send Trump voters to the hotel rooms of delegates in Cleveland if they tried to “steal” the nomination from him. Trump’s convention manager brushed off the rhetoric by saying Stone was not “an official part of the campaign."

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