Why Trump Voters Are Torn Over Minneapolis
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow. |
| 0:03.8 | This is the Daily. |
| 0:09.0 | The question of what to do about undocumented immigrants has long bonded President Trump to his supporters, |
| 0:16.5 | so much so that an overwhelming majority of them back his all-out crackdown over the past year. |
| 0:24.7 | But then came the extraordinary events of the past few weeks in Minneapolis, |
| 0:31.0 | where federal agents killed two American citizens in the streets. |
| 0:35.9 | Suddenly, two of the MAGA movement's biggest priorities fighting |
| 0:40.8 | illegal immigration and fighting government overreach were colliding in the most vivid way imaginable. |
| 0:50.0 | Today, we speak with Trump voters about how they're making sense of that clash, and how, in some cases, it's fundamentally changing their view of the president. |
| 1:08.8 | It's Monday, February 9th. |
| 1:16.6 | Hello? |
| 1:20.7 | Hi, this is Caitlin calling from the New York Times. How are you? |
| 1:23.8 | Hi, my name is Jessica Chung, and we met a while ago around the Maricopa Republicans' office. |
| 1:31.4 | Over the past few weeks, as tensions in Minnesota ramped up, daily producers Caitlin O'Keefe |
| 1:36.7 | and Jessica Chung spoke with over a dozen people who voted for Donald Trump in the last election. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm in Massachusetts. |
| 1:44.4 | Oh, you are? I'm in my garage. Talking to you last election. I'm in Massachusetts. Oh, you are? |
| 1:45.0 | I'm in my garage. |
| 1:47.0 | Talking to you right now, I'm smoking a cigar |
| 1:48.9 | while we're having this conversation. |
| 1:50.5 | Nice. Wow. |
| 1:51.5 | For many of them, immigration had been a major reason for that vote. |
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