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“President Trump, I am pleading. Come to Chicago. Come to
Illinois. Help us save our city before it’s too late,” Leigh
said.
Lupe Castillo, a Republican candidate for Congress in Illinois’
Fourth District, said Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Mayor Brandon
Johnson are cowards for saying Chicago is one of the safest
cities.
“I dare one of them to walk down by my neighborhood, La Villita,
at 10 o’clock at night without any bodyguards, because that’s
all they have. They don’t go anywhere without their bodyguards,”
Castillo told The Center Square.
Castillo said public safety in Chicago is nonexistent.
Chicago Flips Red vice president Danielle Carter-Walters said
the Democratic Party machine tolerates and encourages violence,
from campus rallies to city streets. She said silence has gotten
residents nowhere.
“Silence is what has allowed crime to explode, corruption to
spread and our communities to suffer. We will not be silenced
any more,” Carter-Walters said.
Carter-Walters said people are tired of Pritzker and Johnson
claiming they speak for the citizens of Chicago and Illinois.
“Let’s be clear. They do not represent us. The people deserve
their own voice, and that is exactly what we are here to give
them today,” Carter-Walters said.
Pritzker and Johnson have said they don’t want the National
Guard or Immigration and Customs Enforcement to help fight crime
in Chicago.
Carter-Walters called on Trump to help.
“We are asking for your leadership and your actions, because the
people of Chicago cannot wait any longer,” Carter-Walters said.
A day after the fatal shooting of Illinois native and
conservative leader Charlie Kirk in Utah, Carter-Walters said
she and her colleagues refuse to let evil win.
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