Cook Political Report’s Amy Walter remarks on the lack of backlash against ICE following the fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis last week.

GEOFF BENNETT, PBS NEWSHOUR: Let’s shift our focus to Minnesota, because protests continued there over the weekend. Kristi Noem continued to double down on the administration’s defense, even surging more federal law enforcement to the city. Tam, why has the administration chosen such an aggressive posture here, even after the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in the street, even in the face of all this mounting backlash? TAMARA KEITH, NPR: This administration has one gear, and that is just charge forward. Never apologize, go forward. And they are driven by the view that they are doing what they were elected to do, that this is what Trump’s base wants. Now, if you look at polling on any number of topics, including immigration enforcement, including on the Fed, what you see is that the president has lost independents and he never had Republicans — never had Democrats. But he is losing independents on a bunch of these issues. And this is just another case of him really governing for his voters, versus governing for a broader swathe of the country. BENNETT: And, Amy, there can be an appreciation for tough positions on crime, tough positions on illegal immigration, even while there’s broad concern about overreach and unilateral power. How are Americans — just based on the data, how are Americans viewing all of this? AMY WALTER, COOK POLITICAL REPORT: Well, I mean, I think Tam has that correct that, overwhelmingly, where Americans seem to sit is kind of in this middle place, not surprisingly, which is to say, we want to see enforcement on the border. We want to see enforcement of our laws. If they go over the line, we would like to see accountability for those things. And what’s interesting is watching Democrats try to also figure out this moment and at this time. If you remember, back in the first administration, there were a lot of Democrats after the family separation policy who came out and said, we should abolish ICE. There was some backlash among Democrats after that election that that was too — they went too far and it gave Republicans the opportunity to own the crime and safety issue. You’re not hearing Democrats talk about it as much this time around. And, in fact, there’s really not much appetite from leadership to hold government funding over DHS to once again shut the government down over an issue like this. So, even as there is backlash to what Republicans, what the administration is doing and saying, there is not necessarily an appetite for Democrats to go all in to say, let’s get rid of ICE altogether or let’s hold off their funding.

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