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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino

Daniel Lurie: the millionaire mayor who got Trump to back off (for now)

A man at a lectern.
Daniel Lurie discusses Donald Trump's comments that he had called off a surge of federal law enforcement in San Francisco, on Thursday. Photograph: Noah Berger/AP

Donald Trump rarely has kind words for Democrats, especially those who stand in his way. But on Thursday the president offered something unfamiliar: a compliment.

As federal agents mobilized at a US Coast Guard base in the Bay Area, Trump credited San Francisco’s new mayor, Daniel Lurie, for “very nicely” persuading him to stand down from a planned immigration enforcement “surge” in the city this weekend.

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