Exclusive-Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley targeted in swatting incident

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : The events ranged from riots to brawls at political demonstrations to beatings and murders.
44% : One such incident targeted the Florida home of Republican U.S. Senator Rick Scott on Dec. 27, weeks after he endorsed Trump, according to records from the Naples Police Department.
38% : Trump, famed for his incendiary rhetoric, has expressed fury at Haley in recent weeks.
38% : The swatting wave coincides with the most sustained spate of political violence in the United States since the 1970s, according to a Reuters investigationlast year.
37% : In the early morning hours of Jan. 11, police in Nassau County, New York, received a report of a bomb at the home of Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the civil fraud trial of Trump and his family real estate business.
36% : Judges and at least one prosecutor handling cases against Trump have been targeted.
34% : JUDGES IN TRUMP CASES ARE TARGETEDSimilar scare tactics have been directed in recent weeks at judges and prosecutors involved in cases against Trump.
33% : But Trump backers such as U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene have also faced swatting attempts.
28% : Law enforcement experts see it as a form of intimidation or harassment that is increasingly being used to target political figures and officials involved in the civil and criminal cases against Trump.
25% : The targets include figures who have publicly opposed Trump, such as Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, a Democrat who barred him from her state's primary ballot.
24% : That report documented at least 232 politically motivated acts of violence since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
20% : Just days earlier, police in Washington, D.C., responded to a false report of a shooting at the home of U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is hearing the criminal case charging Trump with attempting to overturn his 2020 election defeat.
17% : The hoax against Haley, who is challenging frontrunner Trump for the Republican presidential nomination, occurred on Dec. 30 in the town of Kiawah Island, an affluent, gated community of around 2,000 people.
8% : Haley has ramped up her criticism of Trump, suggesting he's too old to be president again and calling him "totally unhinged.

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