Pa. Republican Party says it received bomb threat, closed Montgomery County headquarters

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — The Republican Party of Pennsylvania said that it received a bomb threat on Saturday, forcing it to close its Montgomery County Committee Headquarters.

The GOP reports that staff received a phone call around 11 a.m., claiming the caller communicated an angry, profanity-laced bomb threat.

The party released the following statement in a press release to the media:

Today’s incident is one of an increasing number of threats, violence, and intimidation acts against GOP candidates, offices, and staff this cycle - on top of two assassination attempts against President Donald Trump.

“Nothing will stop us from working to elect those who will put our country back on track,” said Chairman Lawrence Tabas. “And there should be unanimous agreement that political violence has no place in our elections, especially after an innocent Butler County husband and father lost his life to political violence. We emphatically urge Pennsylvanians to voice their opinions by voting, not violence and intimidation.”

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