ICE Shootings Are Freaking Out the GOP. They're Afraid to Tell Trump.
They are concerned more protests to the bloodshed may beget additional incidents, have little faith in DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and, from a raw political standpoint, worry the party has squandered the best issues it had when voters were otherwise frustrated with the cost of living: the border and public order.
Immigration, broadly, as one veteran senator granted anonymity to speak candidly told me over the weekend, is for the GOP what health care is for Democrats — a “home game.” Yet with viral images of Americans being shot in broad daylight replacing migrants stampeding across the country’s border, that advantage is quickly dissipating.
So what are Republican elected officials doing to address what could prove calamitous, for the country and their political fortunes?
To date, it’s the usual approach.
They plead with Trump and his advisers in private to calm tensions, as a handful did this weekend. However, most officials hope one of their colleagues can do that work so they don’t have to play the heavy. “You can talk to them” or “Can you talk to them?” are phrases I don’t need access to text chains to know are being relayed between top Republicans.
When lawmakers do reach Trump, the dialogue is similar to those private messages he posted last week from European leaders eager to get him off his Greenland fetish: Start with praise and flattery before moving to the heart of the matter.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/01/26/ice-shootings-are-freaking-out-the-gop-theyre-afraid-to-tell-trump-00746312
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Dog damn these fucking cowards!
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