Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Who's accountable for the results?
President Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public surveys, bolstered internal concern about the administration's confrontational enforcement tactics.
Now, as the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock on TV and social media, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
To the degree they support a more constrained approach, some advisers are playing to the president's occasional misgivings about the optics of some ICE tactics.
"I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "He wants deportations. He wants mass deportations. What he doesn't want is what people are seeing. He doesn't like the way it looks. It looks bad, so he's expressed some discomfort at that."
"... [T]here's the right way to do this. And this doesn't look like the right way to a lot of people."
Several Republicans in Congress have expressed concern to the White House about how the raids are playing out, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
ICE's aggressive tactics are dominating the news and obscuring the White House's work on cost-of-living issues that congressional Republicans, Trump and his team see as more important.
In a spectacle-driven administration like Trump 2.0, is the media blitz in Minnesota doing more harm than good for Trump's presidency? If he recognizes the weakness it's creating for him, is Trump the type of person to surrender on this issue? Considering that all the videos of ICE agents operating in Minnesota is driving this negative sentiment, are the anti-ICE protestors making a difference?
Who's accountable for the results?
President Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public surveys, bolstered internal concern about the administration's confrontational enforcement tactics.
Now, as the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock on TV and social media, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
To the degree they support a more constrained approach, some advisers are playing to the president's occasional misgivings about the optics of some ICE tactics.
"I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "He wants deportations. He wants mass deportations. What he doesn't want is what people are seeing. He doesn't like the way it looks. It looks bad, so he's expressed some discomfort at that."
"... [T]here's the right way to do this. And this doesn't look like the right way to a lot of people."
Several Republicans in Congress have expressed concern to the White House about how the raids are playing out, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
ICE's aggressive tactics are dominating the news and obscuring the White House's work on cost-of-living issues that congressional Republicans, Trump and his team see as more important.
In a spectacle-driven administration like Trump 2.0, is the media blitz in Minnesota doing more harm than good for Trump's presidency? If he recognizes the weakness it's creating for him, is Trump the type of person to surrender on this issue? Considering that all the videos of ICE agents operating in Minnesota is driving this negative sentiment, are the anti-ICE protestors making a difference?
Trump's immigration erosion worries his team
Who's accountable for the results?
President Trump's team recently reviewed private GOP polling that showed support for his immigration policies falling. The results, reflected in public surveys, bolstered internal concern about the administration's confrontational enforcement tactics.
Now, as the chaotic scenes from Minnesota play out around the clock on TV and social media, Axios has learned that some Trump advisers quietly are talking about "recalibrating" the White House's approach — though it's unclear what changes Trump would embrace, if any.
To the degree they support a more constrained approach, some advisers are playing to the president's occasional misgivings about the optics of some ICE tactics.
"I wouldn't say he's concerned about the policy," a top Trump adviser told Axios. "He wants deportations. He wants mass deportations. What he doesn't want is what people are seeing. He doesn't like the way it looks. It looks bad, so he's expressed some discomfort at that."
"... [T]here's the right way to do this. And this doesn't look like the right way to a lot of people."
Several Republicans in Congress have expressed concern to the White House about how the raids are playing out, according to a person familiar with the discussions.
ICE's aggressive tactics are dominating the news and obscuring the White House's work on cost-of-living issues that congressional Republicans, Trump and his team see as more important.
In a spectacle-driven administration like Trump 2.0, is the media blitz in Minnesota doing more harm than good for Trump's presidency? If he recognizes the weakness it's creating for him, is Trump the type of person to surrender on this issue? Considering that all the videos of ICE agents operating in Minnesota is driving this negative sentiment, are the anti-ICE protestors making a difference?
