randi kaye spoke with some election officials who now find themselves under direct threat and fearing cuts and bullets will soon arrive. provides my address. provides my kids' names. rino stole election. we steal lives. >> reporter: the death threat came in the form of a text message sent to al schmidt's personal cell phone. he is the philadelphia city commissioner and for the last decade or so, he's run the elections in his city. >> i don't think there is a single election official across the country that ever took death threats into account as part of our job description. >> reporter: for schmidt, it turned ugly after donald trump tweeted about him calling him a rino, republican in name only. and falsely claiming schmidt refused to look at corruption and dishonesty in the 2020 election. >> do you think the former president put you and your family in danger? >> oh, absolutely. within 24 hours, it began. >> reporter: trump tweeted about schmidt on november 11th last year. the following morning, he got his first death threat via text. that same day, a few hours later, his wife received

as for congressman gosar's constituents, "360's" randi kaye went to his district in arizona to see whattrump was. >> reporter: in prescott, arizona republican congressman paul gosar is a popular guy. in 2020 he got nearly 70% of the vote in this deep red county. but as far as the animation he recently posted online, reaction here even among republicans is mixed. >> as a constituent of his and a supporter of congressman gosar's, you're not okay with this? >> no, i'm not okay with it. >> reporter: why inject violence into the mix and why can't the congressman just disagree with the others on -- >> the issues. that's what they should be doing. just agree to disagree and go back to the old days when people could disagree and not be violent about it. >> i don't think it violates the law. it isn't like making a terrorist threat, which is arrestable. so i think people make jokes or say stuff like that all the time. >> it's terrible. it's uncalled for. >> reporter: this republican voter believes the video shows gosar is simply fighting a war on behalf of those like her. >> the swords when almig