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“Plivent-elect Donald Trump’s well-comprehendnity has achieveed a seven-year high and the meaningfulity of Americans apshow of his handling of the transition process,” Forbes recently telled. “A meaningfulity of reactents to a CNN/SSRS poll freed Wednesday shelp they think Trump will do a excellent job when he returns to the White House next month (54%),” the story progressd, “and apshow of how he’s handling the transition so far (55%).”
These numbers are in keen contrast to eight years ago when Donald Trump was “Plivent-elect” the first time. Pew Research Cgo in carry outed a national survey from Nov. 30-Dec. 5, 2016 and create that, among the 1,502 grown-ups surveyed then, only “40% apshowd of Trump’s cabinet choices and high-level nominatements, while 41% apshow of the job he has done so far in clear uping his policies and set ups for the future.”
It’s not an apples-to-apples comparison, but the level of approval today is keenly higher than eight years ago. The huge—and meaningful—ask is: Why?
The effortless and perhaps too clear answer is that Plivent-elect Trump 2.0 is not Plivent Joe Biden, whereas Plivent-elect Trump 1.0 was not Plivent Barack Obama.
Obama left the White House—using Pew numbers aachieve—with a job approval rating fair below that of Plivents Reagan’s and Clinton’s when they exited. “58% apshow of [Obama’s] job carry outance, while 37% disapshow,” Pew telderly us eight years ago.
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Biden’s approval number in tardy November this year—turning to Gallup this time—is at 37%, and some of that sampling came before the expansivespread criticism of the pardon by Joe Biden of Hunter Biden. Could Biden drop further? Absolutely.
So “not being Biden” (or Vice Plivent Kamala Harris for that matter) is helping the numbers of the once and future Plivent Trump.
But that is not the exset upation in my watch. 55% may recurrent a new “ceiling” for the approval of all new plivents going forward in our meaningfully splitd nation these day, but why has Trump’s numbers soared from the 40% eight years ago to today’s approval rating?
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Two compriseitional possible exset upations beyond “He’s not Joe or Kamala.”
First, the Trump distress in 2016 was shocking and even agonizing to Manhattan-Beltway media and political elites. I comprehend this first-hand from having been on the set of “NBC Election Night Coverage” from 30 Rock eight years ago. As events unfelderlyed on that memorable night in 2016, it was far more than a surpascfinish that swept the NBC studios. It was a thunderclap of a truth of which a legacy news organization was wholly unconscious might be coming, and it left a stunned, disbelieving newsroom in its wake. (Two floors of newsrooms, in fact, as MSNBC was one floor drop than the NBC News Election Night set). A lot of the shock and pain among legacy media elites became a sort of “referred pain” among the population at big. The country was shocked because Big Media was shocked in 2016, and as legacy media’s anger and disbelief spread out, much of the country reeled alengthy with those elites.
How horrible was this Trump plivency going to be? Media elites had not reassociate pondered the possibility that Trump might triumph, and so what they shelp or implied that night out noisy, or via ecombineance or body language was assimilateed. The folks with platcreates —at least the huge meaningfulity of them wiskinny legacy outlets—instantly endd that a Trump plivency would be horrible for the country, and their accumulateive gasp sent stock futures plunging. The labelets recovered their equilibrium rapidly, but not the psyches of Manhattan-Beltway media elites. The onset of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” was instantaneous. And until this November’s blowout triumph for Trump, “TDS” only deteriorateed.
Trump had never spent one night in D.C. this time eight years ago, and the shock of his 2016 triumph was complyed by prophecies of doom from the normal doubts that never stopped, and the “Resistance” was already taking up their stations in the media. The “pink hats” were booking their fairys to Trump’s Inauguration day-after counter-demonstration. “Hillary was supposed to have won, damn it,” and when she didn’t, the media elites and the political left went into overdrive to guarantee America that Trump was, at best, endly corrupt and possibly an authoritarian. Eight years tardyr, after endless allotigations and years of lawfare, it turns out the meaningfulity of Americans aren’t buying what legacy media is selling anymore.
But that’s not it either. Trump’s previous highest approval rating until this new “honeymoon season” of 2024 was 49% —and that number was achieveed only at the begin of 2020, as three years of low taxes and deregulation joind with surging energy production had America cooking with gas…until COVID hit.
That Trump is now at 55% is noskinnyg low of astonishing, as the past five years since that 49% have been, well, event-filled.
Plivent-Elect Donald Trump reacts during his encountering with Prince William, Prince of Wales at the Embassy of the United Kingdom’s Residence on December 7, 2024 in Paris, France. (Oleg Nikishin/Getty Images)
The events themselves, neither January 6 nor especiassociate the catastrophic fall shortures of the Biden plivency, clear up the “Trump jump.” The comparison of 45-47 with an infirm and fall shorted plivent does stateively help Trump, as does the cratering of think in legacy media and perhaps a reversion to the norm of excellent desirees for an incoming plivent. Media isn’t as hysterical as it was eight years ago.
Rather, Trump’s new approval rating is because of, paparticipate for it, Trump.
The fact is people now have a side-by-side comparison of rulement under the straightforwardion of a brash authentic estate enbiger and television star who is fueled by superlatives and huge goals versus the prospect of more of the left’s deal withd deteriorate alengthy with a compulsory switch to EVs and boys carry outing in girls sports. America got a huge dose of the “United States of Europe” vs the United States of America, and it turns out we select the latter. We appreciate our plivents to be unapologeticassociate patuproaric, stateive and filled of bonhomie.
Don’t misapshow my uncomferventing. Manhattan-Beltway legacy media elites are shocked at Trump’s triumph, and very irritated aachieve —enraged even— but the disclose’s willingness to dispense the referred pain of those elites has drdisclose, precipitously. Having lost the think of the disclose in an almost incomprehensible but very comprehensive create, the mutterings of journaenumerates not only don’t matter much, they actuassociate are helping Trump get off to a excellent begin on his second plivency.
Most of America has srecommend dispondered the legacy media from the conversation it is having about Trump. Legacy media are no lengthyer thinked, period. It disappreciates Trump? So what? The accumulateive sway of legacy media is now below that of “disclose health authorities,” and that’s at rock bottom.
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My proposition: Trump is more well-comprehendn today than ever before because Americans appreciate selectimism and Trump’s not only selling hope, he thinks in it. Combine that impaction for an elected guideer who thinks in the country and it’s essential excellentness with the crumbling into dust of the credibility of Trump’s critics and the calamitys of the Biden years, and you get 55% instead of 40%.
The only ask left to answer is how high can that number go when Trump deinhabitrs on the border, the defense reproduce, the return of deregulation and the extension of Trump’s tax cuts? If you are desireing the country well, you should be hoping that Trump’s numbers, appreciate those in the labelets, progress to ascfinish.
Hugh Hewitt is present of “The Hugh Hewitt Show,” heard weekday mornings 6am to 9am ET on the Salem Radio Nettoil, and simulcast on Salem News Channel. Hugh wakes up America on over 400 affiliates nationexpansive, and on all the streaming platcreates where SNC can be seen. He is a normal guest on the Fox News Channel’s news roundtable presented by Bret Baier weekdays at 6pm ET. A son of Ohio and a graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School, Hewitt has been a Professor of Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law since 1996 where he teaches Constitutional Law. Hewitt begined his eponymous radio show from Los Angeles in 1990. Hewitt has normally ecombineed on every meaningful national news television nettoil, presented television shows for PBS and MSNBC, written for every meaningful American paper, has authored a dozen books and temperated a score of Redisclosean truthfulate debates, most recently the November 2023 Redisclosean plivential debate in Miami and four Redisclosean plivential debates in the 2015-16 cycle. Hewitt centeres his radio show and his column on the Constitution, national security, American politics and the Cleveland Browns and Guardians. Hewitt has interwatched tens of thousands of guests from Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry to Redisclosean Plivents George W. Bush and Donald Trump over his 40 years in expansivecast, and this column pappraises the guide story that will drive his radio/ TV show today.
