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Updated: 2:30 p.m. Monday -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer rejected calls from Republicans to deploy the National Guard to Detroit to fight crime..

"I think that those tactics are unwarranted and not something that we're going to be asking (for)," Whitmer said, according to a YouTube video from WWMT-TV in Kalamazoo.

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Three Republican candidates for governor say they favor bringing the National Guard to Detroit to fight crime.

Candidates — Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, former House Speaker Tom Leonard, and former Attorney General Mike Cox — told Bridge Michigan that high crime rates in Detroit warrant the measure.

“Detroit is still one of the most dangerous cities in the entire country,” Leonard told Bridge Michigan during th

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