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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   
   “an act of domestic terrorism,” as part of a “coordinated” conspiratorial   
   effort, hatched by people “being trained” 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.   
      
   There’s some evidence to suggest those efforts haven’t 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 administration’s 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   
   – 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, there’s an enormous partisan gap, though it’s 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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