Arkansas Governor Downplays Threat of Violence on Inauguration Day, Won’t Bring in National Guard

Virginia National Guard soldiers march across the east front of the U.S. Capitol on their way to their guard posts in Washington on Jan. 16, 2021. Samuel Corum/Getty Images

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said his office is monitoring the potential for violence, saying he does not feel the need to deploy the state’s National Guard to the state capitol in Little Rock.

The Republican governor told Fox News on Sunday: “You want to be overprepared versus underprepared because you never want to see a repeat of what we saw on January 6 in our nation’s capital.”