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January 14, 2026 / 05:49
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.
Jan. 14, 2026, 9:39 AM EST
By
Steve Benen

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.

As far as the White House and its allies were concerned, Good had committed ôan act of domestic terrorism,ö as part of a ôcoordinatedö conspiratorial effort, hatched by people ôbeing trainedö to use vehicles as weapons.

The unbelievable claims were discredited by video evidence and by local officials. The president and his team peddled the lines anyway, hoping not only to smear the victim but also to convince Americans not to believe their lying eyes.

ThereÆs some evidence to suggest those efforts havenÆt worked, at least not yet.

The latest Economist/YouGov poll, for example, 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 administrationÆs position.

Just as notably, the 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 û 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.

Not surprisingly, thereÆs an enormous partisan gap, though itÆs worth emphasizing that among self-described independent voters, opposition to ICE has reached a nearly 2-to-1 margin (64% disapprove, while 33% approve).

Put another way, if members of Team Trump expected their counternarrative to convince the American mainstream, they have reason to be disappointed
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