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The Illinois governor pointed out that eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates are led by Republicans.

Aug. 25, 2025, 6:34 p.m. ET
Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois has a message for President Trump: Keep the military out of Chicago.
Mr. Pritzker, a Democrat, stood alongside the Chicago River on Monday afternoon, flanked by Mayor Brandon Johnson of Chicago, pastors, business leaders and community organizers, to push back on Mr. Trump’s offhand declaration that he would send the military into the city, as he had done in Los Angeles and Washington.
“Calling the military into a U.S. city to invade our streets and neighborhoods and disrupt the lives of everyday people is an extraordinary action, and it should require extraordinary justification,” Mr. Pritzker said.
“Look around you right now,” he said, gesturing to pedestrians strolling on the city’s popular riverwalk and the “L” trains rumbling nearby. “Does this look like an emergency?”
Mr. Pritzker added that eight of the 10 states with the highest homicide rates were led by Republicans.
Responding to his remarks, Abigail Jackson, a spokeswoman for the White House, wrote in an email: “If these Democrats spent half as much time addressing crime in their cities as they did going on cable news to complain about President Trump, their residents would be a lot safer.”
On Friday, Mr. Trump said that he planned to target Chicago and New York for his next federal crackdown on crime, calling Chicago “a mess” and suggesting he was willing to use active-duty troops on city streets.
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