The eighth quarterly benchmarking report provides updated findings from the Q2 2024 nationally representative BDI-CivicPulse survey of local elected officials and school board members on their experiences of hostility. This wave surveyed over 400 local elected officials and 200 school board officials, putting the total number of participants across all eight survey waves at more than 3,500. It is the first round of respondents to be surveyed in the aftermath of the deadly shooting at former President Trump’s campaign rally in July. This research is produced as part of an ongoing joint project launched by BDI and CivicPulse in 2022 to conduct quarterly national surveys of local officials on their experiences facing threats and harassment. The updates allow us to identify spikes or shifts in hostility and track important trends in threats and harassment during the 2024 election cycle.

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