Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday commended two Republican governors who have publicly denounced President Donald Trump’s effort to send National Guard troops to Illinois and called on more GOP leaders to speak out against White House “overreach.”

The dissent from the Republican governors of Oklahoma and Vermont came three days after Pritzker sent a letter to National Governors Association Chair Kevin Stitt urging chief executives on both sides of the aisle to call out the deployment of Texas National Guard troops in Illinois as unconstitutional.

Stitt, the Oklahoma governor, criticized Trump’s deployment Thursday, along with Vermont Gov. Phil Scott, who called it “unnecessary.” Pritzker, a Democrat, on Friday said he thinks more officials in the president’s own party feel the same way.

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