For fans at the Army-Navy game, it's about football, not Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

90% : Trump, Vance, Johnson and Thune spoke to one another for an extended amount of time.
63% : Rob McMurray, 67, came to the game from Mississippi and said he was "glad" for the chance to see Trump, who he supports for his "strength" and focus on "American security and the economy.
54% : Bill Roohan, 66, who drove from Baltimore with a giant "Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense" flag waving from his Ford Expedition, said "politics shouldn't cloud" the game.
52% : "As Roohan and others tailgated before the game, Trump made news mid-flight from Palm Beach, Florida.
47% : But among even the most ardent supporters of Trump and his nominees, the show inside the president-elect's box couldn't hold a candle to the game.
47% : Trump also spoke with Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- a top military officer who reports directly to the president and the defense secretary.
45% : Then Trump posted on Truth Social a series of nominations for his upcoming administration -- including David Nunes, a former Republican congressman who now runs the social media platform, to serve as chairman of the president's Intelligence Advisory Board.
44% : He posted to social media a picture of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who ran for president last year to try to block Trump from office, eating McDonald's with drones flying in the background, in an apparent reference to outcry from lawmakers about unexplained drone activity in New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia.
36% : He voted for Donald Trump in all three elections, but today, it did not matter to Gregg Holgate that the president-elect would soon be only yards away.
27% : Trump wants DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to fill a Senate seat expected to be vacated by Sen. Marco Rubio, who is Trump's pick to be secretary of state.
27% : Trump in 2020 selected Brown, an Air Force fighter pilot, to become the first African American to lead a branch of service, but since then, the general has faced Republican criticism for supporting the Defense Department's diversity programs.
13% : DeSantis has also spoken to Trump about the defense secretary job should Hegseth not be confirmed.

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