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On the recordAugust 18, 2025
Car-jacking … we had people mugging people at all hours of the day. And it’s all out of control so the president had to send in the National Guard. And I think that you’ve seen, just in the last 24 hours, a huge decline in crime. And we’re going to support this, and we’re going to support doing this in other cities, if it works out in Washington, D.C.
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James Comer
Republican · Kentucky

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Comer discusses the necessity of deploying the National Guard in response to crime.

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