Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL) said President Donald Trump was attempting to “stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections.”

Partial transcript as follows:

ED O’KEEFE: What do you think it’s going to do to the country if that happens? Deploying in Washington, where he has federal control, is one thing, but if he sends military forces into a major American city- in a state that didn’t ask for it, beyond Los Angeles, what do Americans make of that?

PRITZKER: Well, they should understand that he has other aims, other than fighting crime. That’s the first thing they should understand. The second is, it’s an attack on the American people by the President of the United States. Now, he may disagree with a state that didn’t vote for him.

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