Overview

• Vice President J.D. Vance said on ABC’s This Week that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker should “suffer some consequences” for what he called failures on public safety.
• Pressed on whether Pritzker committed a crime, Vance said he would leave that determination to the courts while asserting the governor violated his oath of office.
• Vance tied his criticism to Chicago’s murder rate and claimed thousands of innocent Chicagoans are dead because Pritzker failed to do his job.
• Pritzker, appearing immediately after, called Vance’s remarks a “tidal wave of lies,” accused the administration of making things up, and said it is threatening to jail political opponents.
• The governor cited a federal judge and the Nobel Prize Committee chair to question the administration’s credibility and warned against using the Insurrection Act to put troops in Democratic-led cities.