At a rally in Grand Island, Nebraska, on Monday, Oct. 5, Trump said of the Iran war: “They can take out a city. Let ’em take out Los Angeles, let ’em take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay.” The crowd applauded. The White House says he meant U.S. cities would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran had not been stopped; California Gov. Gavin Newsom posted “TIME FOR THE 25TH!”
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Trump carried Nebraska by about 20 points in each of his three races.
No source is named in the story or the SOURCES list. Public results show roughly +25 (2016), +19 (2020) and +20 (2024), so "about 20 in each" understates 2016.
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San Diego's bases employ over 136,000 active-duty troops.
Rests on a single advocacy source, the San Diego Military Advisory Council report in the SOURCES list. The story does not attribute the figure, and it may conflate active-duty troops with broader defense employment.