November 25, 2024 • 10 mins
Never before in Donald Trump’s eight years on the presidential scene, had he had a net positive approval rating. That is until now.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Freedom is here to stay. Time for Brian Mudd's Top
three The Center from Florida America's Comeback starts right now.
Happy Monday, I know it, I mean Monday. How often
are Monday's happy? But holiday week? Hopefully you got some
of the good vibes going on, some family and friends
(00:22):
in the mix. I've had some family that rolled in
starting last weekend. I'm really looking forward to to Thanksgiving
in the holiday season. And as we are getting ready
for it, Trump is too. His pieces are in place,
and actually most Americans are with him. The theme of
my top three takeaways for you today and yeah, the
(00:45):
pieces are in place, my top takeaway and by now
it's crystal clear that the second Trump administration is set
to operate much quicker, much quicker, and keeping with the
newly created DOGE which features Elon Muskin Vivek Ramswami, it
(01:07):
is going to operate a lot more efficiently. Already has Yeah,
we've had some drama with cabinet selections, all on Matt
Gates's nomination, which, as I laid out on Friday, I
believe was highly intentional. Gates has gone Now he's going
to do something with Fox News. It looks like but
he had been a huge headache to obviously former House
(01:27):
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but most recently Mike Johnson in the House.
And he's out of the way. Now he's gone, so
as he takes a look at what he might do next,
you know, remembers about things he might try to run
for in Florida politics, like governor. I don't know, we'll
see what comes of all that. But anyway, so you
have the drama with him, and yes, you do continue
(01:48):
to have drama with some of the other nominees, like
Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and Health and Human
Services nominee RFK Junior. You also have some people out
there that are still floating Tulsi Gabbard as a double
agent conspiracy. I think those are just people that are
upset that she had been a lifelong Democrat turned Republican
(02:09):
most recently. Maybe that's the kind of double agent thing
they're talking about. But anyway, what's evident is that Trump
he is a man with a plan and somebody who's
on a mission. By Saturday, with the nomination of Brooke
Rawlings as Agriculture Secretary, President Elect Trump had nominated the
top fifteen cabinet officials in record time. That's in addition
(02:32):
to his newly established DOGE leaders. And by way of comparison,
you're like, okay, well, you know where does this compare
if you take a look at the nominations, the number
of nominations that requires sending confirmation. He wasn't as far
along as he is today until January eighteenth of twenty seventeen,
(02:54):
the first time around, just two days before beings worn
into office. That was when Trump nominated his first Agriculture secretary,
and timing matters in part due to his administration's slow
start and figuring out the cabinet officials he wanted to
go with eight years ago. Trump's first one hundred days
(03:17):
almost completely consumed but just getting his people around him,
just getting his cabinet confirmed. It took him ninety seven
days for the time that he was sworn in until
the time that he had his whole cabinet together. So
Trump is determined not to see a repeat at that
this time. If a president is aiming for maximum efficiency,
(03:38):
as obviously Trump is, you have fourteen days technically and
really about eleven working days in January. They're the most
critical for a president elect to take advantage of. So
the next Senate is seated on January sixth, and the
time the next president is sworn in is January twentieth. Already,
(04:01):
by nominating his cabinet picks, which requires it in confirmation
or at a minimum center recess vote that would allow
recess appointment, you got the vetting process that is underway
for all of them. That'll be the process along. But
the most instructive piece of this is that fourteen day
window in January with the top cabinet picks in tow
(04:21):
you got incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune who could
take temperature checks of each of the nominees to see
if they have the necessary votes to gain confirmation, and
he can then go ahead and package them. Basically, he
can begin to roll out the votes for those nominees
on a conveyor belt from the time the Senate is
worn in until January twentieth, and he can make sure
(04:43):
that they are ready to roll on January twentieth when
Trump is sworn in. This is my second takeaway today,
So to give you an idea on January twentieth, I'm
twenty seventeen Donald Trump only had two cabinet nominees that
requires c information confirmed. Only two heading into that day
(05:08):
you had secretary to his Secretary of Defense and Secretary
of Homeland Security confirmed. That was it. And then on
his inauguration day only one more confirmation took place. That
was for Secretary of State Mike Pompeio the first time around,
So that was it. Through his first day in office,
only three of his cabinet members in place, the ones
(05:32):
that require Senate confirmation getting got like twenty four of those.
So Trump's nomination pays this time around, regardless of whether
there may be controversies with picks or whatever. I mean.
And that's always going to be the case. When you're
looking to fundamentally transform the federal government as he is
looking to do, You're going to have a lot of people.
(05:53):
They're going to bark about whomever it is. I mean,
first and foremost it's a Trump nominees who are going
to get that. But and there's the chance, there's the chance, though,
with everything that he's done at this pace, that he
can have his cabinet in place on day one in office.
You know, the previous record in modern politics, George W.
(06:15):
Bush only took him twelve days in two thousand and
one to get his cabinet. There there's a chance that
Trump beats that this time around. So yeah, you got
the pieces in place. Trump is ready to roll right away.
And speaking of which, the American people, they currently view
Trump two point zero as being better than ever. My
third takeaway for you thirty one states, three hundred and
(06:38):
ten electoral College votes, winning the national popular vote by
two and a half million votes. There's no doubt that
Donald Trump's third presidential election was his best ever and
the best buy any Republican presidential candidate. Saying George H. W.
Bush in nineteen eighty eight, it had been a few years,
so anyway, perhaps it's most appropriate that Trump currently has
(07:02):
the best approval ratings ever. Now. Jenny Mitchell, she made
famous the wards you don't know what you got till
it's gone, But obviously the phrase applies to more than
just urban development. President Biden entered this year with the
lowest approval rating by any first term president in American history,
tading back to when you first had those things, you know,
(07:23):
you started having. Approval polling taken by Gallup was the
first polster in the nineteen thirties when FDR was the president.
So anyway, Biden came into this cycle the lowest ratings
of any first termer on record, and that culminated in
his unprecedented exit for the race after having already clinched
the Democrat Party nomination for the race. But the bottom
(07:44):
line is that Americans obviously had a significant case of
buyer's remorse by bumping Trump for Biden four years ago.
That said, there's a big difference and that is being
perceived at this point by voters. And you know, the
difference is if you take a look the first time around,
(08:07):
he was kind of like the lesser of evils, and
the eyes of the average American is like, all right, well,
I don't like Trump, but I don't like Hillary. Let's
go Trump. Right. They both had net negative favorability ratings
in twenty sixteen, So there's a big difference in being
that person versus being the presidential choice that most footers want.
(08:34):
Never before in Donald Trump's eight years on the presidential
scene had he had a positive approval rating. That is
until now. So according to the Pew Research Center, Trump's
plans and his upcoming presidency are viewed positively by most Americans,
which has also led to Trump having a net positive
(08:56):
approval rating of seven points right now. If you found
fifty three percent of Americans approving of Trump compared to
forty six percent who don't, that is a net approval
rating that is currently twenty two points better than President Biden's.
That also includes Americans that are really optimistic going forward.
(09:20):
We've seen optimism surge in this country over the past
three weeks. And if you take a look at like
the finer points, what is it that Americans are most
approving of with this version of Trump. Fifty nine percent
of voters saying Trump's economic plans, fifty four percent approve
of his criminal justice slash immigration reform, which obviously the
(09:45):
mass deportation plan is front and center in that, and
fifty three percent are happy with what they're hearing about
its approach to foreign policy. So, yeah, Trump's pieces in place. Yes,
Trump's ready to roll. But also importantly, for the first
time yet you got to odd majority of Americans, even
more than those who voted for him, which is interesting
because he got about five percent of people right now
(10:07):
that did not vote for him but are now with
him in his quest to make America great again.
Freedom is here to stay. Time for Brian Mudd's Top
three The Center from Florida America's Comeback starts right now.
Happy Monday, I know it, I mean Monday. How often
are Monday's happy? But holiday week? Hopefully you got some
of the good vibes going on, some family and friends
(00:22):
in the mix. I've had some family that rolled in
starting last weekend. I'm really looking forward to to Thanksgiving
in the holiday season. And as we are getting ready
for it, Trump is too. His pieces are in place,
and actually most Americans are with him. The theme of
my top three takeaways for you today and yeah, the
(00:45):
pieces are in place, my top takeaway and by now
it's crystal clear that the second Trump administration is set
to operate much quicker, much quicker, and keeping with the
newly created DOGE which features Elon Muskin Vivek Ramswami, it
(01:07):
is going to operate a lot more efficiently. Already has Yeah,
we've had some drama with cabinet selections, all on Matt
Gates's nomination, which, as I laid out on Friday, I
believe was highly intentional. Gates has gone Now he's going
to do something with Fox News. It looks like but
he had been a huge headache to obviously former House
(01:27):
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but most recently Mike Johnson in the House.
And he's out of the way. Now he's gone, so
as he takes a look at what he might do next,
you know, remembers about things he might try to run
for in Florida politics, like governor. I don't know, we'll
see what comes of all that. But anyway, so you
have the drama with him, and yes, you do continue
(01:48):
to have drama with some of the other nominees, like
Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth and Health and Human
Services nominee RFK Junior. You also have some people out
there that are still floating Tulsi Gabbard as a double
agent conspiracy. I think those are just people that are
upset that she had been a lifelong Democrat turned Republican
(02:09):
most recently. Maybe that's the kind of double agent thing
they're talking about. But anyway, what's evident is that Trump
he is a man with a plan and somebody who's
on a mission. By Saturday, with the nomination of Brooke
Rawlings as Agriculture Secretary, President Elect Trump had nominated the
top fifteen cabinet officials in record time. That's in addition
(02:32):
to his newly established DOGE leaders. And by way of comparison,
you're like, okay, well, you know where does this compare
if you take a look at the nominations, the number
of nominations that requires sending confirmation. He wasn't as far
along as he is today until January eighteenth of twenty seventeen,
(02:54):
the first time around, just two days before beings worn
into office. That was when Trump nominated his first Agriculture secretary,
and timing matters in part due to his administration's slow
start and figuring out the cabinet officials he wanted to
go with eight years ago. Trump's first one hundred days
(03:17):
almost completely consumed but just getting his people around him,
just getting his cabinet confirmed. It took him ninety seven
days for the time that he was sworn in until
the time that he had his whole cabinet together. So
Trump is determined not to see a repeat at that
this time. If a president is aiming for maximum efficiency,
(03:38):
as obviously Trump is, you have fourteen days technically and
really about eleven working days in January. They're the most
critical for a president elect to take advantage of. So
the next Senate is seated on January sixth, and the
time the next president is sworn in is January twentieth. Already,
(04:01):
by nominating his cabinet picks, which requires it in confirmation
or at a minimum center recess vote that would allow
recess appointment, you got the vetting process that is underway
for all of them. That'll be the process along. But
the most instructive piece of this is that fourteen day
window in January with the top cabinet picks in tow
(04:21):
you got incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune who could
take temperature checks of each of the nominees to see
if they have the necessary votes to gain confirmation, and
he can then go ahead and package them. Basically, he
can begin to roll out the votes for those nominees
on a conveyor belt from the time the Senate is
worn in until January twentieth, and he can make sure
(04:43):
that they are ready to roll on January twentieth when
Trump is sworn in. This is my second takeaway today,
So to give you an idea on January twentieth, I'm
twenty seventeen Donald Trump only had two cabinet nominees that
requires c information confirmed. Only two heading into that day
(05:08):
you had secretary to his Secretary of Defense and Secretary
of Homeland Security confirmed. That was it. And then on
his inauguration day only one more confirmation took place. That
was for Secretary of State Mike Pompeio the first time around,
So that was it. Through his first day in office,
only three of his cabinet members in place, the ones
(05:32):
that require Senate confirmation getting got like twenty four of those.
So Trump's nomination pays this time around, regardless of whether
there may be controversies with picks or whatever. I mean.
And that's always going to be the case. When you're
looking to fundamentally transform the federal government as he is
looking to do, You're going to have a lot of people.
(05:53):
They're going to bark about whomever it is. I mean,
first and foremost it's a Trump nominees who are going
to get that. But and there's the chance, there's the chance, though,
with everything that he's done at this pace, that he
can have his cabinet in place on day one in office.
You know, the previous record in modern politics, George W.
(06:15):
Bush only took him twelve days in two thousand and
one to get his cabinet. There there's a chance that
Trump beats that this time around. So yeah, you got
the pieces in place. Trump is ready to roll right away.
And speaking of which, the American people, they currently view
Trump two point zero as being better than ever. My
third takeaway for you thirty one states, three hundred and
(06:38):
ten electoral College votes, winning the national popular vote by
two and a half million votes. There's no doubt that
Donald Trump's third presidential election was his best ever and
the best buy any Republican presidential candidate. Saying George H. W.
Bush in nineteen eighty eight, it had been a few years,
so anyway, perhaps it's most appropriate that Trump currently has
(07:02):
the best approval ratings ever. Now. Jenny Mitchell, she made
famous the wards you don't know what you got till
it's gone, But obviously the phrase applies to more than
just urban development. President Biden entered this year with the
lowest approval rating by any first term president in American history,
tading back to when you first had those things, you know,
(07:23):
you started having. Approval polling taken by Gallup was the
first polster in the nineteen thirties when FDR was the president.
So anyway, Biden came into this cycle the lowest ratings
of any first termer on record, and that culminated in
his unprecedented exit for the race after having already clinched
the Democrat Party nomination for the race. But the bottom
(07:44):
line is that Americans obviously had a significant case of
buyer's remorse by bumping Trump for Biden four years ago.
That said, there's a big difference and that is being
perceived at this point by voters. And you know, the
difference is if you take a look the first time around,
(08:07):
he was kind of like the lesser of evils, and
the eyes of the average American is like, all right, well,
I don't like Trump, but I don't like Hillary. Let's
go Trump. Right. They both had net negative favorability ratings
in twenty sixteen, So there's a big difference in being
that person versus being the presidential choice that most footers want.
(08:34):
Never before in Donald Trump's eight years on the presidential
scene had he had a positive approval rating. That is
until now. So according to the Pew Research Center, Trump's
plans and his upcoming presidency are viewed positively by most Americans,
which has also led to Trump having a net positive
(08:56):
approval rating of seven points right now. If you found
fifty three percent of Americans approving of Trump compared to
forty six percent who don't, that is a net approval
rating that is currently twenty two points better than President Biden's.
That also includes Americans that are really optimistic going forward.
(09:20):
We've seen optimism surge in this country over the past
three weeks. And if you take a look at like
the finer points, what is it that Americans are most
approving of with this version of Trump. Fifty nine percent
of voters saying Trump's economic plans, fifty four percent approve
of his criminal justice slash immigration reform, which obviously the
(09:45):
mass deportation plan is front and center in that, and
fifty three percent are happy with what they're hearing about
its approach to foreign policy. So, yeah, Trump's pieces in place. Yes,
Trump's ready to roll. But also importantly, for the first
time yet you got to odd majority of Americans, even
more than those who voted for him, which is interesting
because he got about five percent of people right now
(10:07):
that did not vote for him but are now with
him in his quest to make America great again.
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