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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

Absolutely. Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

If he has one murder in the city of Chicago, he should be calling President Trump and saying, what's your ideas?

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

Well, for 13 consecutive years, Chicago had more murders than any other American city.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

We don’t want troops on the streets of American cities. That’s un-American. Frankly, the president of the United States ought to know better.

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Wes Moore
@wesmoore· Democratic · MD· Aug 31, 2025

The National Guard is completely performative. The National Guard is not even trained for it.

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

Every single city is evaluated for what we need to do there to make it safer

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

I'd encourage every single big city, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, whatever they are, if they want to help make their city safer, more prosperous, allow people the opportunity to walk in freedom, like the people of Washington, D.C., are…

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

That always is a prerogative of President Trump and his decision

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

We will continue to go after the worst of the worst across the country, like President Trump has told us to do

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Kristi Noem
@kristinoem· Republican · SD· Aug 31, 2025

We do intend to add more resources to those operations

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

It’s an invasion with US troops, if they in fact do that.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

National Guard troops or any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don’t belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency – and there is not.

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Gretchen Whitmer
@gretchenwhitmer· Democratic · MI· Aug 31, 2025

I’ll keep fighting like hell to deliver relief for our residents, local governments and utility providers.

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Gretchen Whitmer
@gretchenwhitmer· Democratic · MI· Aug 31, 2025

Michigan families and businesses deserve the support they need to recover from these storms.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

I can tell you this. I built a Holocaust museum. I know what the history was of a constitutional republic being overturned after an election in 53 days.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

It's an attack on the American people by the president of the United States.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

Well, they should understand that he has other aims other than fighting crime.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

This is dangerous. They shouldn't be doing it. It's anti-American. It's un-American.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

National Guard troops, any kind of troops on the streets of an American city don't belong, unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

We hope that they don't send any troops along with ICE. And, if they do, they'll be in court pretty quickly, because that is illegal.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

It's clear that, in secret, they're planning this – well, it's an invasion with U.S. troops if they in fact do that.

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J.B. Pritzker
@jbpritzker· Democratic · IL· Aug 31, 2025

What they're saying they're trying to do is fight crime, but, actually, they're just trying to scare people.

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