MaddowBlog-Polls show most Americans reject White House line on ICE, Renee Good shooting
If members of Team Trump expected their counternarrative to convince the American mainstream, they have reason to be disappointed.
If Team Trump wants to talk about public attitudes related to ICE and the Good shooting, thatâs a great idea.
But the latest polling suggests McLaughlin and her colleagues are going to be disappointed: tinyurl.com/urvpt83t
— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-01-14T15:41:45.619Z
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Almost immediately after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed an unarmed woman in Minneapolis, the Trump administration wasted little time settling on a narrative that it expected Americans to believe: The victim, a 37-year-old mother named Renee Nicole Good, was the villain of the story......
Theres some evidence to suggest those efforts havent worked, at least not yet.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll, for exampl
e, found that the vast majority of Americans are familiar with what transpired in Minneapolis, and by a 20-point margin, people saw the shooting as unjustified (50% vs. 30%). The same survey found that a 56% majority of Americans believe that both state and federal officials should be responsible for investigating the shooting, which is the opposite of the Trump administrations position.
Just as notably, t
he Economist/YouGov poll found that a 47% plurality said ICE is making Americans less safe, while a 46% plurality said ICE should be abolished altogether.
This is not the only available data on the subject. Consider the latest Quinnipiac poll:
Days after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fatally shot a Minneapolis woman in an incident that was captured on video, voters 82 18 percent say they have seen a video of the shooting and a majority (53 percent) think the shooting was not justified, 35 percent think it was justified, and 12 percent did not offer an opinion, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today.
The same survey found that 57% of Americans disapprove of the way ICE is enforcing immigration laws, while 40% approve......
Put another way, if members of Team Trump expected their counternarrative to convince the American mainstream, they have reason to be disappointed