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EXCLUSIVE: When President Donald Trump announced on “Fox & Friends” that Memphis would be the next focus of his nationwide anti-crime push, Sen. Bill Hagerty told Fox News Digital he has long been working to address the city’s crisis.

Hagerty, R-Tenn., said he has been concerned with Memphians’ public safety for years, and has worked with Gov. Bill Lee, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., as well as some Democrats in West Tennessee, where locals have been seeing red as crime continues to soar for those “walking ten feet off of Beale.”

Trump’s National Guard announcement is also something that is very likely to garner rare bipartisan support in the blue city within the red state – as Hagerty also praised Democratic city Mayor Paul Young and the are

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