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Trump invoked war imagery in threatening to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, where Gov. JB Pritzker opposes having troops.

Those in favor of President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to cities are largely in his Republican base and say it reduces crime, feel it makes them personally safer — even if they don't live in cities — and that in principle they'd support deployment to other U.S. cities.

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President Trump on Monday continued to flirt with the idea of mobilizing National Guard troops to combat crime in Chicago, just a day after he had to clarify that he has no intent to “go to war” with the American city.