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New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Wednesday he wouldn’t be intimidated by President Donald Trump’s potential threats to deploy the National Guard to his city.

"I think that his threats are inevitable," Mamdani told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

"This has nothing to do with safety. It has to do with intimidation. If it was [about] safety, President Trump would be threatening to deploy the National Guard to the top 10 states of crime, eight out of which are all Republican-led, but because of that party, he won't actually be doing so," he said.

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Among the states Trump has sent the National Guard to is GOP-led Tennessee, a

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