Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D) said President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., is “performative,” despite a recent drop in the violent crime rate.

In an interview that aired Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week,” Moore acknowledged there’s more work to do in Baltimore to bring down the crime rate. He said while he would welcome federal help, he pushed back on the idea of sending in the National Guard.  

“I would love more federal support, but federal support on things that actually make sense and not things that are performative,” Moore, a potential 2028 presidential candidate, said in the interview.

“The National Guard is completely performative because the National Guard is not even trained for it,” he added, noting local law enforcement and FBI agents are better trained to do municipal policing.

ABC News’s Martha Raddatz asked Moore in the interview, which was filmed earlier this week in Baltimore, about Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser saying Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in the nation’s capital has been a success, when measured by the drop in crime, especially in robberies and carjackings, which have long plagued the city.

Moore said he’s glad Washington has seen a reduction in crime but called the deployment of National Guard troops to major cities inefficient and “not sustainable” for the cost.

“If the president of the United States were to have a serious conversation with me and say, ‘What can we do?’ — particularly when you look at the cost of the National Guard of well over a million dollars a day,” Moore said, “Do you know what I would tell him?”

“I would tell him things like, we need to make sure we’re increasing funding for local law enforcement. And we have to invest in our community groups and community organizations,” Moore said.

“That’s a serious approach how to address this issue, but asking me to deploy my National Guard — people who are not trained for municipal policing — is just not a serious approach.”

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was seriously injured in a car crash on Saturday evening in New Hampshire, according to a statement from his security team.

Giuliani’s vehicle was “struck from behind at high speed,” Michael Ragusa, head of Giuliani’s security, said in an official news release.

Giuliani, who previously served as President Trump’s personal attorney, was transported to a nearby trauma center, according to the statement, “where he was diagnosed with a fractured thoracic vertebrae, multiple lacerations and contusions, as well as injuries to his left arm and lower leg.”

Ragusa said Giuliani’s business partner Maria Ryan, a nurse practitioner, was contacted and arrived at the hospital shortly after the crash.

In a statement provided to The Hill, the New Hampshire State Police confirmed they were “investigating a crash that left three people injured, including a passenger identified as former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.”

“Just before 10 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025, Troopers assigned to the Troop B barracks were investigating a reported domestic violence incident on Interstate 93 southbound in Manchester when a two-vehicle crash occurred across from them on the northbound side of the interstate. As a result of the collision, both vehicles went into the median and were heavily damaged,” the state police said.

“Troopers and fire personnel, who were at the scene of the first incident, witnessed the collision and quickly crossed the interstate to render aid,” they added, saying Giuliani was a passenger in the struck vehicle.

Shortly before the car crash, according to Ragusa’s statement, Giuliani was “flagged down by a woman who was the victim of a domestic violence incident.”

“Mayor Giuliani immediately rendered assistance and contacted 911. He remained on scene until responding officers arrived to ensure her safety,” the statement said. 

Ragusa told the New York Post that the car crash “occurred after he re-entered his vehicle, which was then hit from behind at high speed.”

He said the domestic violence incident was “random and unrelated” in a post on the social platform X.

“The mayor is in great spirits. He’s a beast. He survived 9/11,” he said.

“He’s getting further tests and stabilization of his injuries,” Ryan told the Post.

Shortly after releasing the official statement, Ragusa followed up on social media to attempt to nix conspiracy theories.

He said Giuliani was in a rental car, adding, “No one knew it was him.” 

“This was not a targeted attack. We ask everyone to respect Mayor Giuliani’s privacy and recovery, and refrain from spreading unfounded conspiracy theories,” Ragusa said in a subsequent post. 

Giuliani, once known as “America’s mayor,” became central to Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, spreading Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. Dozens of lawsuits, recounts and audits produced no evidence of significant fraud that would have changed the outcome of the election.

He has since faced significant legal losses. Two Georgia election workers won a $148 million defamation judgment against him for his efforts to spread false claims about them to sow distrust in the election outcome. He was also permanently disbarred from practicing law in the nation’s capital.

—Updated at 7:31 p.m. EDT

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), a possible 2028 presidential candidate, said he is not inclined to engage in a partisan redistricting push in his state ahead of the 2026 midterms.

In a Sunday interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Pritzker warned against more states redrawing their maps in the middle of the decade, but he said Democrats should consider alternatives if more Republican states redistrict.

“That’s not something that I want to do. It’s not something that any of us want to do,” Pritzker said when asked whether there’s “any chance Illinois redraws its congressional lines before next year’s midterm elections.”

“But I have to say, if Donald Trump is going to force his will on the American people by going to his MAGA allies in various states and having them redraw in the middle of a decade — when you’re supposed to be doing it right after a census, with a year ending in one, not a year ending in five,” Pritzker continued.

“If he’s going to do that all over the country, I think all of us have to think about what it is that we can do to counter that,” he added.

Pritzker said it is “possible” to redraw congressional maps in Illinois to favor Democrats even more than they do already, but he said he would “like it to stop here,” after Texas and California — amid a push for other states to undertake a similar endeavor.

“I can tell you this, that, yeah, it is possible to have more Democratic districts in the state of Illinois, and we could do it. Like I said, it’s not something that I want to do, and I’d like it to stop here,” he said. “I know Texas is now signing this map into law. … And we’re now going to see it in California, probably.”

“I hope that it ends there. It ought to end there. And we ought to, you know, get a census done in 2030 and a new map done in 2031,” he said.