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The Chris Cuomo Project

Minnesota Is the Pattern, Not the Exception

The Chris Cuomo Project

Chris Cuomo

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.53.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Chris Cuomo breaks down why what’s unfolding in Minnesota isn’t an isolated failure, but a repeatable pattern driven by escalation, provocation, and political convenience. He walks through how federal immigration enforcement tactics collided with protest, rhetoric, and poor leadership decisions — producing outcomes that were foreseeable long before they became deadly.Cuomo argues this moment forces adjustments on both sides ahead of the midterms. He explains why dehumanization, overreach, and “us vs. them” politics keep producing the same results, why blaming pawns won’t fix the underlying problem, and why most Americans are actually aligned on enforcing the law the right way. Minnesota, he says, shows what happens when power is exercised without restraint — and why pretending it’s an exception only guarantees repetition. Join The Chris Cuomo Project on YouTube for ad-free episodes, early releases, exclusive access to Chris, and more: https://www.youtube.com/@chriscuomo/join Follow and subscribe to The Chris Cuomo Project on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube for new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday: https://linktr.ee/cuomoproject Rho Nutrition https://rhonutrition.com/discount/CUOMO for 20% sitewide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Minnesota is a moment. I told you, F-A-F-O was going to be the epitaph for the Trump administration,

0:08.1

for MAGA, if they didn't check themselves before they wrecked themselves. And here we are.

0:13.0

The president is big backpedal mode because he is out of step with the majority, and now he's

0:19.1

got to figure out some to blame and the question is what

0:22.6

adjustments will be made by those who want to win the seats in the midterms because this is the moment

0:29.3

i'm chris quomo welcome to the chris quomo welcome to the chrisomo Project. As you can see, I've got my free agent hat on, and if you can't see, then stream the video. Why? Because I want you to wear your independence. I want you to go to the store. I want you to see that we wear our independence, free agent, critical thinker, that you are different, okay?

0:55.7

You're not some pack animal party first loser.

0:59.5

And that's how we have to start seeing partisans as losers.

1:03.7

We've got to be about right and wrong, not right and left, because it allows you to avoid

1:09.8

so much of the BS manufactured division that's going on that makes everybody money on social media.

1:16.9

Because it's costing us so much, so much.

1:21.9

And we see that in Minneapolis.

1:23.9

Minneapolis, Minnesota is absolutely all about competing agendas, all about provocation, all about might makes right.

1:36.0

It literally is MAGA at its best and worst. Why? Well, let's look at how we got here. And then we're going to look at the developments

1:45.9

that are going to shape where it goes next. And that's what's really important. Really important for

1:50.1

Democrats. Bad early sign. Bad early sign. This could have actually been the first line of the podcast,

1:56.4

which is this. Democrats don't get off on mocking Trump.

2:05.3

Don't get off on saying Trump surrendered, yay, yay.

2:09.4

Do you really want military on the streets?

2:12.0

Some of you do.

2:13.2

Some of you want that fight.

2:14.5

I know you do.

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