President Donald Trump seems to be on a huge winning streak with victories for the country on both our Southern and Northern borders, bringing home hostages that we didn’t even hear about under Joe Biden, and remaking government.
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Indeed, as we reported over the weekend, he’s even managed to pull off an amazing shift in the attitude of the American public. At the beginning of January, most Americans thought we were going in the wrong direction as a country. Then, after Trump was inaugurated and started taking action, there was a 19-point shift in an Emerson poll, so that now a majority of the country think we are heading in the right direction. That’s a pretty stunning shift. All that strength and optimism is also making it difficult for the Democrats in terms of opposition because the public’s opinion of them is also so unfavorable.
READ MORE: NEW: Poll Reveals Amazing Shift in Public Opinion About Direction of the Country Since Inauguration
Now Harry Enten, CNN’s senior data nerd, has some more unhappy news for Democrats that’s likely to make them cry. He explained how likely it was that the two nominees that were likely most in question — Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Secretary of Health and Human Services – both now have a very high probability of being confirmed. Gabbard was at 92 percent, and Kennedy was at 82 percent.
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“Trump, simply put in a word, he’s winning” when it comes to his Cabinet nominees. RFK Jr./Gabbard look like they’ll get confirmed. Rest are all but assured.
At least so far, Trump is getting more of his picks through than the average president in the modern era (since 1993). pic.twitter.com/DDtU5Vlazd
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) February 4, 2025
Enten said their prospects now seem to be “going through the roof” to be confirmed. Indeed, both of them just were voted out of their Senate committees, albeit on a party-line vote.
Given the movement of Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) to support Tulsi, and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) to support RFK Jr., that much improved their chances of prevailing on the floor.
How about the chances for the remaining picks? Enten had that at 99 percent. While that means there’s a “chance” one of them could fail, it’s a “one in a million chance basically,” he concluded. It ain’t happening. So Gabbard and Kennedy look likely to be confirmed, and the rest of the field looks “really, really, really likely to be confirmed.”
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Enten looked at all the Cabinet picks with the above in mind, and if it works out as anticipated, there will have been only one person that didn’t go through, and that person wasn’t even rejected. Matt Gaetz pulled out from being considered for Attorney General. He also explained how, historically, the average was three picks who withdraw or are rejected, so Trump was doing better than the average.
“Simply put, he’s winning,” Enten crowed.
“Getting the people he wants more so than the historic norm,” John Berman confirmed.
Not to mention doing it while lighting up the Democrats and getting wins on virtually every other issue.
