ICE backlash drives Minnesota election wins

Our top story, a historic midterm election with many firsts on the state and national level here in Minnesota. Unofficial results show more than 2.8 million voters cast ballots. That breaks the previous record set in 2018. Thank you for joining us on Fox 9 and Fox Local for our continued election coverage. I'm Randy Meyer. And I'm Kelsey Carlson. Tonight, we are taking a closer look at two of the big issues for candidates ahead of the midterms, those being fraud and the federal immigration crackdown. As Mike Manzoni will report, fraud didn't seem to be a top voting motivator for many. But first, Maury Glover joins us. Maury, it appears the federal immigration crackdown was, especially for those in the metro. That's right, whether it was motivating voters or mobilizing turnout, backlash against the ICE surge heavily influenced top races here in Minnesota and across the country. It's emotional. At the memorials for Alex Preddy and Renee Goode, Minnesotans placed their I voted stickers on the surrounding signs and posts. But the ghosts of both Minnesotans killed by ICE agents seem to loom large over the ballot box on election day. After the horror of Renee Goode and Alex Preddy, their senseless killings, we didn't look down. We looked up. We didn't look away. We looked at each other. In victory speech after victory speech. We will rip apart. Democratic candidates credited anger over Operation Metro Surge as one of the main reasons for their win. And you said, no more masked goons shooting our neighbors and terrorizing our communities Earlier this year, tens of thousands took to the streets to protest the largest federal immigration law enforcement deployment in US history. But Democrats say the actions of ICE in Minnesota at the direction of President Trump also drove many to the polls for the midterm elections. They even shot and killed two Minnesotans. But he couldn't make us turn on each other. And it wasn't just here in Minnesota, people across the country use their votes to send a message, resulting in a blue wave washing over states like Texas, where Democrats came out on top as well. They're upset by some of the extremism now that we're seeing with masked men and unmarked vehicles kidnapping people off our streets and sometimes killing our neighbors. Now while some winning candidates like Peggy Flanagan want to abolish ICE, others like James Tallarico, you just saw there from Texas, want to see major reforms. Back to you.