Loyalty matters: Trump picks allies and supporters to fill out his administration

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

81% : VANCE IS THE FRONT-RUNNER, BUT HERE'S WHO ELSE MAY RUN FOR THE 2028 GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION "Elise is a strong and very smart America First fighter," Trump said of Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, whom he has chosen as his ambassador to the United Nations.
61% : Trump also named Rep. Michael Waltz of Florida as his national security adviser.
59% : Both politicians eventually endorsed Trump this year, following the primary season.
58% : " TRUMP TO PICK FLORIDA'S RUBIO TO SERVE AS SECRETARY OF STATE Fox News also reported that Trump is expected to name Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as secretary of state.
58% : Rubio was a rival to Trump during the combustible 2016 Republican presidential nomination battle but over the years has become a strong Trump ally in the Senate.
58% : Trump this past weekend announced in a social media post that he would not ask former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley - who served as ambassador to the U.N. in his first administration - and former Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas - who served as CIA director and then Secretary of State in Trump's first term - to join his incoming cabinet.
55% : Waltz, a former Army Green Beret, is a longtime Trump ally, Dan Eberhart, an oil drilling chief executive officer and a prominent Republican donor and bundler who raised big bucks for Trump's 2020 and 2024 campaigns, noted that Trump is in a very different situation than he was eight years ago, when he first won the White House.
48% : " Additionally, Trump called former Rep. Lee Zeldin of New York, whom he is aiming to install as Environmental Protection Agency administrator, "a true fighter for America First policies.
45% : While the senator is known on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy hawk who favors maintaining U.S. alliances overseas, including NATO, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee member has taken similar positions to Trump on a number of top international conflicts, including Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Israel's war with Hamas.
15% : Haley ran against Trump in this year's Republican presidential primaries and ended up as the final challenger to the former president in what turned into a divisive nomination battle.

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