They helped Trump take back the White House. The rewards have come swiftly.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : In Lumbee-rich Robeson County, where Barack Obama twice won handily, Trump secured a 28-point victory, his largest margin across three races.
68% : Three days after taking office, Trump signed a memorandum declaring it US policy "to support the full federal recognition" of the Lumbee Tribe, the strongest statement to date from the Oval Office.
66% : But an eight-year pursuit by Trump for the battleground state's predominant native group - culminating with his promise last fall to grant the tribe much-coveted federal recognition - appeared to resonate at the ballot box.
65% : "If a year ago you put me into hypnosis and said, 'Describe to me your deepest dreams of what could happen,' this would be straight-up fantasy," said Bailey, who owns the Bitcoin conference where Trump first stepped out as a pro-crypto candidate.
62% : " In this October 2024 photo, Abigail Blue, a member of the Lumbee Tribe, walks by the stage during a campaign event in support of Donald Trump in Red Springs, North Carolina.
57% : A day after taking office, Trump fulfilled his pledge to pardon Ulbricht.
56% : Trump appealed to both groups during the campaign - a calculation his political team made early after watching the Libertarian candidate siphon votes from him in 2020.
50% : Amid the outreach, and with many of his members increasingly leaning toward Trump, Teamsters President Sean O'Brien stunned Democrats by delivering a primetime address at the Republican National Convention (getting a lukewarm response from the GOP audience).
49% : Angela McArdle, the Libertarian Party chair at the time, has publicly insisted giving Trump a platform at the convention has paid off for her members.
48% : Steven Nekhaila, the current party chairman, called Ulbricht's clemency a "good transaction from the libertarian movement," but added that Libertarians were naive if they thought Trump wanted "anything more than our vote.
46% : Days before his inauguration, Trump also announced a new meme coin capitalizing on his name, presenting new conflicts for a president who already has more than any modern predecessor.
45% : "We know we got criticized by our peers in organized labor, but we've watched our organization do the same thing every single campaign and expect a different result," he said.
42% : The Teamsters is closely watching how labor fares in early decisions under Trump by the National Labor Relations Board and whether his administration stands by union provisions in existing federal contracts.
40% : Yet since returning to office, Trump has upended the federal government's wary stance toward cryptocurrency just as he said he would.
36% : The strategy paid off for Trump: He won 45 percent of the vote from union households, according to a CNN exit poll, a striking watermark for a GOP candidate.
36% : Trump has yet to say, for example, how much Bitcoin the Federal Reserve should stockpile.
31% : Even after Trump pledged over the summer to make the US a Bitcoin haven and the industry spent tens of millions of dollars supporting his presidential bid, Bailey suspected Trump's overture might be a fleeting appeal for crypto voters rather than a lasting commitment.
31% : Lowery said he is "cautiously optimistic" Trump can champion a legislative push, but if Republicans with full control of government can't get it to his desk, Lumbee voters may swing back toward Democrats.
24% : When Trump unveiled his family's new digital asset business, Nic Carter, a crypto investor who supported the Republican, said, "At best it's an unnecessary distraction, at worst it's a huge embarrassment and source of (additional) legal trouble.
20% : After three hours of intense discussions, Trump agreed to nominate Chavez-DeRemer and, most critically, vowed not to relent in face of expected pushback from business groups who saw her as too sympathetic to unions, O'Brien told CNN.
19% : Trump has done that on this issue.
15% : Similarly, Trump named Kennedy Secretary of Health and Human Services shortly after the election after vowing the prominent vaccine skeptic would have a role overseeing health issues in his administration.

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