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CNN/ORC Poll: Confidence drops in Trump transition — Washington (CNN)Donald Trump will become president Friday with an approval rating of just 40%, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll, the lowest of any recent president and 44 points below that of President Barack Obama, the 44th president.
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Trump Remains Unpopular, With the Presidency in Hand (POLL) — Donald Trump enters office as the most unpopular of at least the last seven newly elected presidents, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds, with ratings for handling the transition that are also vastly below those of his predecessors.
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Obamas, out. Trumps, in: Flipping the White House is a 5-hour sprint — When Donald Trump walks into the White House for the first time as president on Jan. 20, his suits will be hanging in his closet, his personal photos will be displayed on perfectly placed tables, and his toothbrush …
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First on CNN: Trump's cabinet pick invested in company, then introduced a bill to help it — Tom Price in 60 seconds Story highlights — Washington (CNN)Rep. Tom Price last year purchased shares in a medical device manufacturer days before introducing legislation that would have directly benefited …
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Trump's HHS pick doesn't want to flaunt his own Obamacare bill at confirmation hearing — (CNN)Tom Price made his name in Washington as a critic of Obamacare — in fact, he has a plan to dismantle it. — But he may not want to talk about that much when he testifies before Congress this week …
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump, Price and Hill GOP at odds on Obamacare
Trump, Price and Hill GOP at odds on Obamacare
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8 shot at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park in Miami on MLK Day; 2 detained — Police and fire rescue crews are on the scene after eight people were shot during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park. — According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue …
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Curtis Houck / NewsBusters:
Reporters Plead with MLK III to Attack Trump; Did Lewis Tweets Shake You ‘To Your Core?’
Reporters Plead with MLK III to Attack Trump; Did Lewis Tweets Shake You ‘To Your Core?’
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Martin Luther King's Niece Voted For Trump
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Beast:
Obama Loves Martin Luther King's Great Quote—But He Uses It Incorrectly
Obama Loves Martin Luther King's Great Quote—But He Uses It Incorrectly
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Scalpers taking losses on tickets to Trump inauguration, as secondary market interest on the mogul's swear-in wanes — Donald Trump will take office as one of the most unpopular President-elects in recent history — and even scalpers are feeling the pain. — Some flippers …
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Sources: Trump labor pick Andrew Puzder has voiced second thoughts about nomination — Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's choice to be labor secretary has voiced second thoughts in recent days, because of a relentless barrage of criticism from Democrats, labor unions and other liberal groups …
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CIA Director John Brennan Rejects Donald Trump's Criticism — Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan rejected Donald Trump's suggestions that he may have leaked an unsubstantiated dossier on the president-elect while defending the U.S. intelligence community more broadly.
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Trump has earned no respect for being the ultimate sore winner — Kellyanne Conway is walking a Dangerfield line. — “We got no forbearance. We got nothing. We got no respect,” the Trump strategist told CNN's Anderson Cooper last week, complaining about media coverage of her boss.
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Trump Warns on House Republican Tax Plan — Donald Trump criticized a cornerstone of House Republicans' corporate-tax plan, which they had pitched as an alternative to his proposed import tariffs, creating another point of contention between the incoming president and congressional allies.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Most Successful Democrat Since F.D.R. — When Barack Obama ran for president in 2008, he understood, without quite saying it, that there had been no highly successful Democratic president in decades. — Bill Clinton made the country a better place, but his biggest legislative plans failed and he was beset by scandal.
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Return of the leftover left — The leftover left that materialized during the Bush administration is returning in force as of January 20. Whatever they do to disrupt events related to the inauguration of Donald Trump as president, it is a preview of coming attractions.
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Fear Spurs Support for Health Law as Republicans Work to Repeal It — WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional Republicans appear to have accomplished a feat that President Obama, with all the power at his disposal, could not in the past seven years …
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‘Never Trump’ national-security Republicans fear they have been blacklisted — They are some of the biggest names in the Republican national security firmament, veterans of past GOP administrations who say, if called upon by President-elect Donald Trump, they stand ready to serve their country again.
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Power Line, Balloon Juice and Instapundit
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The Trumpcare Conundrum — As congressional Republicans race to repeal and replace President Obama's Affordable Care Act, one of their principal challenges is finding an alternative that does not expose older and less affluent white voters at the core of Donald Trump's electoral coalition to greater costs and financial risk.
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For Trump, Three Decades of Chasing Deals in Russia — It was 2005, and Felix Sater, a Russian immigrant, was back in Moscow pursuing an ambitious plan to build a Trump tower on the site of an old pencil factory along the Moscow River that would offer hotel rooms, condominiums and commercial office space.
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Istanbul Reina nightclub attack suspect captured — Turkish police have arrested the main suspect in the New Year's Eve attack on an exclusive nightclub in Istanbul after a huge manhunt. — Abdulkadir Masharipov is believed to have mounted the assault on the Reina club which left 39 people dead.
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How Trump's Pick for Education Secretary May Reignite the Education Wars — Let the education wars begin. — Donald Trump's choice to lead the Department of Education, Betsy DeVos, has the nation's teachers unions preparing to re-enter battle over public education systems …
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Politico
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Public Splits on Trump's Ethics Compliance; Three-Quarters Want Tax Returns Released (POLL) — Americans divide evenly on whether the incoming Trump administration is complying with ethics laws. And while a bare majority in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll accepts President-elect Donald …
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Scott Clement / Washington Post:
A majority of Americans feel like Trump has done enough on his conflicts of interest
A majority of Americans feel like Trump has done enough on his conflicts of interest
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Monica Crowley to forgo post in Trump White House — GOP foreign policy adviser Monica Crowley said Monday she will relinquish the senior job she'd been poised to take in the Trump White House. — Ms. Crowley, who had been tapped to be senior director of strategic communications …
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