Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Tuesday urged President Trump to “stay away” from Portland, Ore., after the Trump administration moved to deploy the National Guard into the city.

“Portland has — among the 68 largest cities in the country — the largest drop in murder rate in the country. It has a 20 percent drop. In fact, it's been cut in half, 20 percent drop in violent assaults,” Merkley told CNN’s John Berman on “CNN News Central.”

“And Portland, so, is pretty calm and peaceful and recovering, and business has been coming back downtown. We've been recovering from the riots that Trump incentivized and stimulated back in 2020 and we're like, ‘Stay........

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