PHOENIX (LifeSiteNews) – The FBI is analyzing a “suspicious white powder” delivered Saturday to the campaign office of Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.
“Yesterday, one of Kari’s staffers opened up an envelope that had a suspicious white powder in it and had a letter in there with a bunch of vulgarities and ranting and raving about Kari,” a source close to the campaign told Conservative Brief on Sunday.
The source added that the employee “noticed [a] second package that was exactly like the first one she had opened and she reported it.”
According to a Phoenix Police spokesman, officers arrived at the scene at 10:15 p.m. and left at 5 a.m., the Daily Beast shared. Lake’s campaign staff said the FBI, a hazmat team, and a bomb squad also responded to the scene.
The suspicious items will undergo analysis at an Arizona laboratory, a law enforcement source told CNN.
Lake’s campaign headquarters remains shut down, and the staffer who discovered the package is currently under medical supervision, according to a campaign spokesperson. No injuries have yet been reported.
Lake’s campaign believes the incident is a “terroristic attack, trying to intimidate Kari and the campaign staff,” Conservative Brief reported.
While Lake’s campaign team said it is taking the “threat incredibly seriously,” campaign spokesman Colton Duncan has affirmed that they remain undeterred.
“In the meantime, know that our resolve has never been higher and we cannot be intimidated,” Duncan said. “We continue to push full speed ahead to win this election on Tuesday.”
Lake has been a galvanizing force amid her run for Arizona governor, due in part to her bold claim that the 2020 election was “stolen” from Trump, and her affinity for other “politically incorrect” statements.
Observers have noted that Republicans are being increasingly targeted with violence attempts or threats in the lead-up to the midterm elections.
A GOP candidate’s children were shot at while they slept
Now hazmat and bomb squad have arrived to Kari Lake’s office
Republicans are being hunted
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) November 6, 2022
Recently, a gunshot was fired into the home of Pat Harrigan, Republican candidate for North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District, only a few feet from where his young children lay sleeping.
On Saturday, a man put a female supporter of New York gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in a chokehold while she protested at a Gov. Kathy Hochul rally in Manhattan.
A 21-year-old Chicago man was charged last week with threatening a public official, a felony, and two harassment offenses after he left a voicemail at a state senator’s office graphically describing how he was going to torture and kill Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Darren Bailey.