People Down There Want to Lynch Grijalva

As a five term representative, Raul Grijalva is accustomed to being called names. But death threats carry a whole other significance.

Although he was wrong when he surmised that "I'm almost certain that Ms. Mercer is not going to be able to survive her own primary," as she is now his nemesis, he was right when he said her comments to POLITICO were "an attention grabber," according to the publication's David Catanese.

Grijalva won't  go to Nogales because "people down there want to lynch him," Mercer said in the report. "That is what the mayor says, people down there, they want to lynch him ... He doesn't show up in Nogales because people want to lynch him."

But as Catanese notes, Nogales Mayor Arturo Garino denied the claim. "I would never say that," Garino told Catanese.  “She visited my office.  But never did we discuss anything like that.”

Unfounded claims are par for the course with Saucedo Mercer, leaving Grijalva to offer that "there’s no substance to it ... It's that kind of exaggeration I've been ignoring."