Trump's first picks are war hawks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : On the campaign trail, Trump found some success in positioning himself in an anti-war lane.
52% : Earlier this week, Trump decided to nominate Sen. Marco Rubio, (R-Fla.) as Secretary of State, according to the New York Times, and to name Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) as his national security adviser.
52% : On Wednesday, Trump said he would appoint Steven Witkoff, a real estate investor and campaign donor who is also a reliable Netanyahu booster, to be Special Envoy to the Middle East.
39% : Trump "is naming people based on their loyalty rather than their ideology," Parsi told Mother Jones.
38% : (Trump was helped by Vice President Kamala Harris' reluctance to distance herself from President Joe Biden's establishment-oriented foreign policy.)
30% : Trump may not have figures like Pompeo and Haley and former national security adviser John Bolton in the White House this time, but "many of the people he has named represent the same views," said Triti Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute.
30% : Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Trump-backer who is herself hoping to win a national security job in the incoming administration, in July urged Trump to avoid Rubio, who she said "represents the neo-con, war mongering establishment.
29% : Trump is "trying to appeal to at least two sides of the party that are diametrically opposed," said Justin Logan, director of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, which has advocated for reducing defense spending and US commitments overseas.
20% : (Sources said that Trump-world figures still hope to stop Rubio, whose selection Trump has not announced, from actually receiving the Secretary of State nomination.)
19% : Trump gave those backers some hope with his announcement last week that he would "not be inviting" Pompeo or former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley "to join the Trump Administration.
7% : "Trump has already faulted Biden for the president's limited efforts to dissuade Netanyahu from continuing his war in Gaza and in Lebanon.

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