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Tim Kaine
@timkaine· Democratic · VA· Jun 13, 2025

For prioritizing diplomacy and refraining from participating in the military strikes.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Jun 13, 2025

If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Jun 13, 2025

Our New York City is in trouble,” he says, “you feel it when you walk down the street and try not to make eye contact with a mentally ill homeless person.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jun 12, 2025

I didn’t realize how much animosity there is here – we have a responsibility to the American public to work together.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jun 12, 2025

We have a broken immigration system in this country.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Jun 12, 2025

The minute you cross into attacking law enforcement, any type of rioting, any type of vandalism, looting, just be prepared to have the law come down on you.

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Ron DeSantis
@rondesantis· Jun 12, 2025

And we will make an example of you — you can guarantee it.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Jun 12, 2025

We are not going away. We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country and what they have tried to insert into the city.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Jun 12, 2025

It's wrong to deploy the National Guard and active-duty Marines into an American city over the objection of local law enforcement just to inflame a situation and create a crisis.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Jun 12, 2025

It is wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city, over the objection of local law enforcement.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Jun 12, 2025

If Tom Homan comes to Albany to arrest me, I’ll say go for it. You can’t intimidate a governor.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 12, 2025

By night, several dozen lawbreakers became violent and destructive, they vandalized property, they tried to assault police officers.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 12, 2025

This is outrageous, dictatorial, and shameful. Trump and his shock troops are out of control.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 12, 2025

federal troops be immediately removed from the city.

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Tim Walz
@timwalz· Democratic · MN· Jun 12, 2025

It's the federal government's job to secure the border.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Jun 12, 2025

Clearly there's no invasion, there's no rebellion, it's absurd.

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