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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

President Trump promised to end the weaponization of government against the American people, and we are making good on that promise.

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Kathy Hochul
@kathyhochul· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 2025

Unfortunately, the Trump Administration and Republicans in Congress have made Long Island drivers the latest victims in their never-ending campaign to make our air dirtier, and our traffic worse.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 2025

Zohran Mamdani has shown one quality time and again: duplicity.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 2025

New Yorkers deserve a mayor who stands on principle – not one who hides behind excuses.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 2025

Mamdani now claims he didn’t know who she was. That is laughable.

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Andrew Cuomo
@andrewcuomo· Democratic · NY· Oct 5, 2025

And as we’ve learned, if he’s smiling, he’s lying.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked — rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Oct 5, 2025

It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

You know that somebody is funding them and organizing them and that they’re being paid.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

So our intelligence indicates that these people are organized.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

They had followed them and gotten them cornered, pinned them down.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

It’s been $2,000 to kidnap them, $10,000 to kill them.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

We have specific agents who have had bounties put out on their heads.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

This is a war zone. His city is a war zone, and he’s lying so that criminals can go in there and destroy people’s lives.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

Absolutely, he’s giving them air cover.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Oct 5, 2025

Let’s remember that [the] mayor has a less than 6% approval rating in Chicago.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Oct 5, 2025

This is a continuation and escalation of the President’s dangerous, un-American misuse of states’ National Guard members.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Oct 5, 2025

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump’s Invasion.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Oct 5, 2025

It is our understanding that there are more on the way today.

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Gavin Newsom
@gavinnewsom· Democratic · CA· Oct 5, 2025

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Oct 5, 2025

No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate. We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion.

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Greg Abbott
@gregabbott· Republican · TX· Oct 5, 2025

You can either fully enforce protection for federal employees or get out of the way and let Texas Guard do it.

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Tina Kotek
@tinakotek· Democratic · OR· Oct 5, 2025

The facts on the ground in Oregon haven't changed. There's no need for military intervention in Oregon. There's no insurrection in Portland, there's no threat to national security.

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