Zito said there are “two sides” to Chicago: one part for tourists that is “very, very safe” and the other where crime is “a really big problem.” <\/p>\n

“For Pritzker to make that sort of blanket statement, ‘Look at the pretty riverwalk, there’s no problem here,’ is almost insulting. Well, I’m not even going to say almost. It’s very insulting for the parents that worry about their children every day and every night as they just go about doing very common routines,” Zito said on Fox News’s Fox News LIVE<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Zito added that people can’t simply go to a scenic place in a city and say, “Look how great my city is.” She said families being affected by crime are “feeling real pain” and that their children don’t have the “<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supporting-postpartum-moms-could-boost-declining-fertility-rates\/\" title=\"Supporting Postpartum Moms Could Boost Declining Fertility Rates\">free life&rdquo<\/a>; that allows them to live without concern of being shot.<\/p>\n<p>Pritzker claimed on Sunday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3788771\/pritzker-trump-stop-2026-elections-troop-invasion-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump has ulterior motives<\/a> with his possible National Guard deployment to Chicago, saying the president would “like to stop the elections in 2026 or, frankly, take control of those elections.” Trump called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3788645\/trump-trashes-pritzker-as-chicago-crime-crackdown-looms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the governor “CRAZY” for resisting help<\/a> regarding Chicago’s crime problem, saying “six people were killed and 24 people were shot” the previous weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/3787948\/if-jb-pritzker-wants-presidency-start-pike-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>IF JB PRITZKER WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT, HE SHOULD START IN PIKE COUNTY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump said Monday that District of Columbia Mayor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/3788975\/trump-cites-muriel-bowser-popularity-blue-state-governors-national-guard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Muriel Bowser has “become very popular”<\/a> after she worked with the president on his crime cleanup in the district. Zito said Bowser approached the federal takeover of Washington “in the appropriate way” but that Pritzker is likely to say he will “work with the feds” instead of saying he’ll work with the president.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Sunday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/3788883\/noem-there-are-absolutely-plans-deploy-troops-high-crime-red-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there “absolutely” are plans<\/a> to deploy troops to cities with Republican leadership, saying “every city is being evaluated.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pritzker’s ‘blanket statement’ ignores Chicago’s crime issues: Zito<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2481431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25240020519289.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[4387,5894,20657,34951,6317],"class_list":["post-2481430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-chicago","tag-politics","tag-pritzker","tag-salena-zito","tag-statement"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25240020519289.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481434,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481430\/revisions\/2481434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2481431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}