Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker is again pushing back on President Donald Trumps threat to deploy the National Guard to Chicago to combat crime.

Speaking Tuesday at a press conference, Pritzker called the president "unhinged" and suggested firmly that he has no intention of calling the president to ask for troops to be sent in.

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"When did we become a country where it's okay for the U.S. president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything," Pritzker said. "Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

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