WATCH: Vance says Trump administration doesn't think Insurrection Act is needed 'right now'

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President Donald Trump has floated invoking the Insurrection Act to tamp down unrest in Minnesota, but his No. 2 says that's not necessary.

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"Right now, we don't think that we need that," Vice President JD Vance said in Minneapolis Thursday.

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Through the years, Trump has repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, a rarely used federal law, to deploy the U.S. military or federalize the National Guard for domestic law enforcement, over the objections of state governors.

Earlier this month, Trump said it could be necessary to quell persistent protests against federal agents sent to Minneapolis to enforce his administration's massive immigration crackdown.

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