close Video

NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles!

New Jersey Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rep. Mikie Sherrill bashed President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments to major American cities, saying that troops in the streets "makes people less safe."

Speaking during a gubernatorial debate against GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli on Wednesday night, Sherrill said that "military members should not be on our streets."

"It makes people less safe, it makes people feel less safe," she said.

Asked how she would respond to Trump sending the National Guard to a New Jersey city and whether there were any circumstances in which she would support such a move, Sherrill answered, "Unless there is an insurrection or some sort of crisis where the National Guard could come in a

See Full Page