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Republicans are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump’s slipping support on immigration and the economy — two key issues that helped him win in 2024 — could cost them the midterm elections. The Super Bowl halftime show won’t help their anxiety.
The performance by Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican global music star and outspoken critic of Trump’s immigration policies, is expected to underscore on one of the world’s biggest stages the political and cultural divide over the administration’s crackdown that led to the killing of two Americans in Minneapolis and spurred protests nationwide.
Trump’s border and immigration policies had been popular among the electorate over much of the past year. But after weeks of seeing masked federal agents tackling people on the street, detaining children and killing a pair of US citizens, just 34% of voters approve of how officials are enforcing the policy, down six points from two weeks prior, according to a Feb. 4 Quinnipiac poll.
Republicans, meanwhile, are negotiat...
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