Private GOP Poll Reveals Trump’s Immigration Support Crumbling
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🗓️ 16 January 2026
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| 0:44.6 | double take we are pleased to be joined by mark caputo our old pal coming back looking fresh |
| 0:52.2 | sporting the you stuff. Look at that. |
| 0:55.8 | I'm loving it. Yeah. Yeah. You know, they always said that Miami was the Yukon of Coral Gables. |
| 1:02.0 | Yes, I've heard that before. Mark, we miss you tremendously. You're now off in Axios. We haven't had you on enough, usually because the video is tank when you're on. |
| 1:12.7 | But hopefully this one will do better. |
| 1:14.7 | Yeah, the Facebook radio, you know. |
| 1:16.7 | We're here to talk about your piece in Axios today, which has been something that I've been waiting to see. |
| 1:22.5 | But you obviously have way more sources and insight into what's going on. |
| 1:25.8 | And Trump, the piece is called Trump's immigration erosion worries his team. And you got your hand on some private polling data that I think largely reflects the public polling data, but it's more important because it's private. So this is the stuff that they're actually paying attention to. It's probably the stuff that's going to gear their decision making. I'll just read the top line and then you tell |
| 1:44.3 | me what the hell is going on inside the administration. According to internal GOP polling that alarmed |
| 1:49.0 | some Trump insiders, it was complete at the end of December, days before ICE agents fatally shot |
| 1:53.8 | Renee Good in Minneapolis. So this is already prior to that. 60% of independent voters and 58% of |
| 2:00.3 | undecided voters said Trump was too focused on deporting illegal immigrants. |
| 2:04.7 | 33% said Trump was primarily deporting law-abiding people as opposed to criminals. |
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