Domenico Montanaro

A Quinnipiac poll found that 57% disapprove of the way that ICE is enforcing immigration laws.

53% said that they don't think that the shooting was justified, while only 35% say that it was.

And this has become the real problem for Trump on something that had been an advantage with immigration.

You know, people may be in favor of deporting criminals who are in the country illegally, but they've also been saying for months that they see this administration's approach as going too far or acting too harshly when it comes to deportations.

And that's been dragging down Trump's numbers overall on immigration.

Yeah.

And I have to say, from a raw politics perspective, I mean, do Republicans really want to elevate the profiles of people like Mark Kelly, the senator from Arizona, or Alyssa Slotkin, the senator from Michigan?

They're two of the more moderate members of the Democratic caucus.

Talking about an astronaut, a former CIA analyst.

I mean, they'd cut pretty good profiles for 2028 candidates.

And I'd venture to say that if not for how the Trump administration has gone after them,

Kelly in particular would not likely be somebody who's as much part of the 2028 conversation as he is now.

And it's also just not the wing of the Democratic Party that politically you would think the Republicans would want to highlight.

Yeah, for sure.

It's a huge motivating factor.

I mean, remember, he's been smarting from investigations that were going into him for years and he's been promising, quote unquote, retribution.

And that's come into fruition now.

You know, it's really become a sort of political platform in the second term, fuel for conservative grievance.

He's gone after any number of perceived political enemies, whether it's former officials who've spoken out against him, journalists, universities, law firms, you name it.

Well, I mean, Trump trying to centralize power and finding out what the guardrails are is something that I always thought might define the second term.