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The management ranks throughout the Democratic Get together proceed to develop, as one in every of the outcomes of Trump’s choice to deploy the navy in blue cities beneath the pretense of an imaginary crime wave is that Democrats have come collectively in any respect ranges to combat again.
As Trump retains rumbling about sending Nationwide Guard troops to Chicago, Gov. JB Pritzker held a information convention the place he stepped up and challenged Trump in direct and clear phrases.
Gov. Pritzker (D-IL) mentioned:
As we speak, we’re standing right here, united in public, in entrance of the cameras, unafraid to inform the president that his proposed actions will make our jobs more durable and the lives of our residents worse. Earlier at the moment within the Oval Workplace, Donald Trump appeared on the assembled cameras and requested me personally to say, Mr. President, are you able to do us the dignity of defending our metropolis? As a substitute, I say, Mr. President, don’t come to Chicago. You’re neither wished right here nor wanted right here.
Your remarks about this effort over the past a number of weeks have betrayed a unbroken slip in your psychological colleges and aren’t match for the auspicious workplace that you just occupy.
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