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Chicago Democrat Raymond Lopez tore into his own party for turning a blind eye to crime, accusing leaders like Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson of whitewashing the issue while standing in the way of President Donald Trump’s crackdown.

"History will prove the Democratic Party wrong in this moment," Lopez said Monday on " Fox & Friends ."

"There are very few of us who are standing up to say, ‘No, we do not need to move the goalpost that far to the left to be relevant,’ and, unfortunately, we have a small segment of our electorate who thinks that that is the right way to go."

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Lopez, who has represented Chicago's

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