I think it speaks to the importance of doing this research at multiple levels.
As I mentioned, I began the research by looking at 2019. To speak to a prior question, we looked at all political candidates for some of the exact reasons you described. We wanted to understand the dynamics of harassment against any individual who is running as a political candidate. I can certainly speak more to that.
We see different dynamics at something like the municipal level, in part because, as Lindsay Brumwell said, people go in not expecting harassment as much. The other reason is that institutions at this level have less capacity to deal with harassment. On the Hill, protections have been stepped up in different ways for lots of reasons. People have larger teams than at the municipal level. The institutions there have less capacity to handle some of the problems they are facing in terms of harassment at in-person meetings and online. This helps to explain the difference at the municipal level versus the federal level.
