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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 Washingt

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