Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : This time, said Shaffer, Trump has the experience to put in place officials who will represent his ambitions.
58% : Trump has distanced himself from the plan even though members of his first administration were influential in its creation.
51% : But many of those who voted for Trump are weighing other priorities.
42% : Democrats are fuming that Trump wants to put a vaccine denier in charge of health, former Fox News presenters at the helm of the Pentagon and transportation department, and at the prospect of Elon Musk slashing and burning his way through the sprawling federal bureaucracy.
40% : Neil Shaffer, chair of the Republican party in Howard county, Iowa, which twice voted for Barack Obama but has swung ever more to Trump with each passing election, has never been an enthusiast for the former president even if he voted for him three times.
36% : How the desire to see Trump take on a system that has increasingly come to resemble a corporate oligarchy will square with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's authoritarian plan to impose rightwing control across the entire US government that would also enlarge the power of big business, remains to be seen.
33% : Then Bisch saw Trump in office and decided he was the president most likely to challenge the drug industry and what he sees as its corruption of American medicine and health regulation.
25% : "I think Trump is going to have enough free-thinkers and people that have already explicitly criticised a lot of the stuff that's been going on out there.
24% : "Bo Copley, a former miner in West Virginia who now works as a salesman, said he was disappointed that Trump did not behave with more dignity during his first term.
3% : Nikki Haley, the former UN ambassador who challenged Trump in the Republican primaries, on Thursday criticised Gabbard as "a Russian, Iranian, Syrian, Chinese sympathiser".

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