Republicans who voted against Jordan’s speakership bid report menacing calls and threats to their offices

Several Republicans who opposed Rep. Jim Jordan’s House speakership bid said they are experiencing angry calls, menacing messages and even death threats since casting their votes, increasing the already tense and chaotic atmosphere in the GOP as they struggle to elect a speaker.

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa said in a statement that she has “received credible death threats and a barrage of threatening calls” after flipping her speaker vote from Jordan on Tuesday to House Appropriations Chairwoman Kay Granger on Wednesday. New York Rep. Nick LaLota, meanwhile, shared in a social media post a message he received that told him to “go f**k yourself and die.”

Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas said his office has been flooded with calls and there’s been “lots of profanity,” but “no real substantive threats,” while Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon’s wife received menacing text messages.

The anonymous text messages warned her husband – who has been a vocal holdout against Jordan – to back the Ohio Republican. “Your husband will not hold any political office ever again. What a disappointment and failure he is,” read one messages sent to Bacon’s wife and obtained by CNN through the congressman. She responded to that text saying, “He has more courage than you. You won’t put your name to your statements.”

Jordan has so far failed to clinch the speakership in two rounds of voting, facing 22 GOP votes against his bid on Wednesday – far more than the handful he could afford to lose given the party’s narrow majority in the House. The prolonged speaker fight in the wake of Kevin McCarthy’s historic ouster earlier this month has led to growing tensions and frustration among the House Republican conference.

Jordan on Wednesday condemned the death threats, saying “it’s just wrong.”

“It should never happen,”…