Trump tells KWAM he’s reluctant to endorse in GOP primary for governor
“I hate to have to endorse,” President Donald Trump said of John Rose and Marsha Blackburn. “They are both excellent people.” (Rebecca Blackwell/AP file)
Trump also talked generally about possibly sending National Guard troops to Memphis to help battle crime although procedures for activating the Guard in states differ from the laws that allowed him to put troops on Washington, D.C. streets.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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