motivate

In Minnesota, officials confirmed the fatal shooting of former House Speaker Melissa Hortman and the wounding of state Sen. John Hoffman was politically motivated.

The shooting comes amid a rise in politically motivated threats and violence across the country.

Stones were thrown at the windows of a hotel in Newtownabbey and a car was set on fire in Hesketh Gardens in Belfast, which police are treating a racially motivated hate crime.

“You can't just say they voted against their own self-interest because they're telling us, for some reason, something in there motivated them to do that.”

I think that's probably because they were in their filter bubbles and had been the least exposed to the other side of the political divide and the arguments that were motivating them.