Trump eyes Rubio for secretary of State, Waltz for national security adviser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Trump announced that Lee Zeldin, a former congressman from New York, would lead the Environmental Protection Agency and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-New York), who chairs the House Republican Conference, would become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
48% : "In an appearance on Fox News last week, Waltz said Trump "has been very clear" that the war in Ukraine needs to be driven to some form of conclusion.
45% : Related Here are the people Trump has picked for key positions so farThe picks may foreshadow the kind of clashes between Trump and his aides that dominated his first term in office when he sought to pull U.S. troops out of Syria and negotiate a nuclear arms deal with North Korea, moves that were ardently opposed by some of his more hawkish aides, such as national security adviser John Bolton and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
42% : But Trump has prioritized loyalty as a prerequisite for joining his administration, an attempt to stamp out challenges to his decisions.
34% : Rubio's ascent would also mark a dramatic evolution of his relationship with Trump, who once called him a "total lightweight who I wouldn't hire to run one of my smaller companies - a highly overrated politician!"
26% : He also served this summer on the task force investigating the apparent assassination attempts on Trump.
22% : Despite their long-standing reputations as hawks, both Rubio, 53, and Waltz, 50, have tried to align their foreign policy views to Trump's in some ways over the years, particularly on the conflict in Ukraine, which has become increasingly unpopular among Republicans as it grinds on as a costly war of attrition.
18% : While Trump has called it a "day of love," Waltz posted on social media on its first anniversary that it was a "terrible day for sure" and said that "those involved will be brought to justice."
15% : Beyond staking out a tough position on Beijing, Rubio also could steer Trump to taking an even more aggressive position on Hamas, the group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, setting off the year-old conflict in Gaza.

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