Trump is leaning into his crackdown on city crime. The GOP sees it as a winning issue
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President Trump threatened to deploy more troops to U.S. cities this week — and not just the National Guard — as part of what he describes as his national crackdown on crime.
Speaking to U.S. troops aboard an aircraft carrier in Japan, Trump said he planned to expand his crime and immigration offensive because "we have cities in trouble."
"We're sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard,
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