Republican senators gather behind Trump sending troops in blue cities – even in their backyards

The Senate Republicans are at the origin of President Donald Trump’s desire to send the National Guard to cities and states led by Democrats with high crime rates, and some are even ready to send troops to blue cities in their own states to clean the streets.

“Blue cities like Memphis need all the help they can get against violent crimes,” Senator Marsha Blackburn said R-Tenn., Fox News Digital told a statement.

Trump’s desire to reproduce his efforts to combat crime in Washington, DC, where he federally federal police and sent the National Guard to patrol the streets and metro stations, led him to report plans to send troops to Chicago and Baltimore, two blue cities in blue states with high crime rates.

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President Donald Trump is expressed with members of the law forces and soldiers of the National Guard, Thursday, August 21, 2025, in Washington, DC (Jacquelyn Martin / AP Photo)

The probable decision attacked the Democratic senators of Illinois and Maryland, who accused the president of playing “political theater” at DC and having tried to “play the dictator” with the American army.

The whip of the Senate minority, Dick Durbin, D-ill., Accused that the threat of Trump’s National Guard is “nothing more than a takeover to distract his disastrous policies”, while Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD. life.”

“Instead of politicizing our big city in Baltimore, of which Trump knows nothing, he should simply the button while the federal, state and local law enforcement is doing their important job,” he said.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen, D-MD., Center, is expressed at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, April 18, 2025. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

The Republicans, however, largely supported Trump’s decision to bring the National Guard to the district and planned to extend its federalization of the Metropolitan Police Service – or allow it to bypass the Congress to maintain its grip on the local police – after the expiration of the 30 -day window.

Some welcome the idea that the troops came to suppress crime in their open arms cities.

Memphis, for example, is the largest city in Ruby-Red Tennessee and one of the highest violent crimes in the country. Similar to Baltimore and Chicago, he is led by a Democratic mayor. Blackburn told Fox News Digital that she would welcome Trump to send troops to the city.

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Senator Marsha Blackburn arrives at a commercial meeting of the Senate Judicial Committee at the Dirksen Senate office building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

“I press the efforts of the Trump administration to restore public order in cities without law through America, and I will continue to work with the president, the Attorney General (PAM) Bondi and the director of the FBI (Kash) Patel to do everything it takes to make cities like Memphis again,” she said.

And in Saint-Louis, another big city that constantly reduces the top 10 data pools on violent and global crimes, Senator Eric Schmitt, R-MO., Recently worked with a patel to guarantee funding for an increase in FBI agents nicknamed “one of the largest infusions by capital of full agents and intel staff in the country”.

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Schmitt reported an opening to the troops coming to Saint-Louis and accused that “for too long, the local leaders of the Blue Cities are more focused on the rights of the criminals than the victims, and he allowed the crime to compensate”.

“American families want to and deserve to feel safe in their communities, and I am happy to see President Trump do what it takes to enforce the rule of law and increase public security,” Schmitt said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “His efforts at DC have had a huge success, and I have no doubt that other cities could benefit from an increased presence of the police.”