New Hampshire’s GOP candidate for US Senate, Bill Binnie, has been a very bad Republican, and you know what that means: death threats.

He’s been under attack by the tribalist far right that now dominates his party, over his support for legal abortion rights. There’s a disturbing amount of tacit and at times explicit support for violence and thuggery among the anti-abortion crowd, and now it’s even being directed against Republicans who don’t toe the religious right’s line.

Binnie along with his 80-year-old father have both received death threats as the campaign has taken an ugly turn. During a visit to The Conway Daily Sun on Friday, Binnie confirmed there have been threats on his life.

“Yes, including my 80-year-old father,” he said. “I’m a fiscally conservative pro-choice Republican. People come up to our doorway all the time.”

Binnie believes it’s his pro-choice stance that has led to death threats.

“I believe so,” he said. “Why am I being attacked by these outside groups? Do you think their motivation is anything other than that? Look who is attacking me, it’s a real issue. I think (Thursday) we got over 1,000 pieces of mail to my home, 1,000. We don’t answer our phone anymore.

“I think that there is a fight in my party for individual rights and what it means to be a Republican, I really do,” Binnie continued. “I believe that the individual has the final say, not the government, in terms of how we live our lives. I believe in fiscal common sense. I believe you’re allowed to have control of your own body. I understand the issues with this, often it can get religious, but it’s an individual choice. I think that Rowe versus Wade did judge it.

“Believe it or not I’m for conservative judges,” he continued. “People say that’s a paradox. No. I believe as long as a judge looks at the Constitution in a narrow way and defines it on individual liberties, I think that’s completely consistent. My view of the Republican Party is the party of ideas. It morphed into parts that I don’t recognize.”