By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and BILL BARROW, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — JB Pritzker took a water taxi along the Chicago Riverwalk, past one of Donald Trump’s famous downtown towers. The gleaming and heavily trafficked tourist district was a deliberate backdrop on the day the Illinois governor directed a defiant message toward the White House: “Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.”

The governor’s protests, however, may not matter. After Trump’s National Guard deployments to Los Angeles in June and Washington, D.C. this month , the Republican says his next targets for federal intervention may be two of the nation’s most Democratic cities: Chicago and Baltimore.

Trump’s possible move — targeting states whose governors are among potential

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