DOVER, N.H. — A New Hampshire man is facing federal charges after he allegedly sent text messages that contained a threat to kill Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and everyone planning to attend one of his campaign events.
Tyler Anderson, 30, of Dover, will face a federal judge Monday afternoon.
According to court documents, Anderson received a text message this past Friday from Ramaswamy’s campaign notifying him of a political event happening Monday morning in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The United States Attorney’s office said Anderson responded to the text with his message that said, “Great, another opportunity for me to blow his brains out!” and “I’m going to kill everyone who attends and then [expletive] their corpses.”
Ramaswamy was the only candidate with a listed event in Portsmouth at the Roundabout Diner. He was also scheduled to make stops in Nashua and Manchester on Monday.
Agents executed a search warrant at Anderson’s home on Saturday.
Court paperwork indicates investigators searched his phone and found the messages in question in the “deleted” items folder.
Agents say Anderson admitted to sending the threatening text messages and that he also “sent similar threatening messages to multiple other campaigns.”
The Vivek 2024 campaign released the following statement:
“We are grateful to law enforcement for their swiftness and professionalism in handling this matter. Our security team worked closely with New Hampshire state police, who are some of the best in the nation. We’re going to let the investigators do their work and figure out who this person is and what their motives might be,” the statement said. “We will, however, say this: we constantly hear about January 6 and ‘violence’ and ‘extremism on the right’ from the media, but the same media goes silent when the target is a Republican. Deranged voices and left-wing cranks like Keith Olbermann and Steve Schmidt continue to demonize Republicans and question our loyalty to the country. It’s no wonder that fanatics will take action. Whenever it’s some nut with alleged right-wing views, the media is quick to blame all conservatives for stoking violence. Yet the media never looks in the mirror and sees that they stoke hatred and violence by questioning our patriotism and motives and accusing us of undermining democracy,” the statement continued to say.
The US Attorney’s office says the charge Anderson is facing carries a sentence of up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000.
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