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On the recordJune 8, 2025
If you deploy the National Guard, it’s going to be very incendiary, and things are going to erupt, and that creates a public safety problem.
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Gavin Newsom
Democratic · California

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Newsom warns that deploying the National Guard will escalate tensions and create safety issues.

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