memeorandum: Poll: Trump's popularity soars after election (Anna Palmer/Politico)

11:15 AM ET, November 21, 2016

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Anna Palmer / Politico:

Poll: Trump's popularity soars after election — Donald Trump's popularity is rising in the days since his election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters. — Forty-six percent of voters now have a very favorable or somewhat favorable opinion of the president-elect.

Discussion: Townhall.com, The Daily Caller, No More Mister Nice Blog, RedState, The Week and Althouse

Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:

Trump Needs to Earn His Mandate — The tens of thousands of nonviolent protesters taking to the streets against Donald Trump are exercising their constitutional rights. But they are wrong to declare that Trump is not their president: He won legitimately and, support him or not, he will be president of all Americans.

Jon Reid / Morning Consult:
Voters Say Trump's Children Should Work Outside Administration

Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Times

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Christie re-emerges after his falling out with Trump. But is he back on the inside?

Discussion: Associated Press

Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:

Alt-Right Exults in Donald Trump's Election With a Salute: ‘Heil Victory’ — WASHINGTON — By the time Richard B. Spencer, the leading ideologue of the alt-right movement and the final speaker of the night, rose to address a gathering of his followers on Saturday, the crowd was restless.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Talking Dog, Patterico's Pontifications and ThinkProgress

Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Meet the new think tank in town: ‘Alt-right’ comes to Washington to influence Trump

Discussion: RedState

A thought on the Hamilton storm of the:

A thought on the Hamilton storm of the weekend: — But let me first say that for the last 24 hours I have been focused on one thing, Blake's state championship game. I didn't even hear about this fuss until lunch today. Blake's game was a heart wrenching loss that came in overtime play last night.

New York Post:

The real problem with the ‘Hamilton’ shout-out to Pence — Brandon Victor Dixon's remarks Friday night came from a good place. But they also yet again revealed the peculiar failure of liberal America to practice the empathy it preaches. — The actor who plays Aaron Burr in “Hamilton” …

Discussion: CNNMoney, EW.com, Washington Free Beacon, CBS New York and LewRockwell

Louis Nelson / Politico:
Conway on Trump's Hamilton feud: 'Who is to say that he can't do that'

Discussion: Jezebel

Lisa Rein / Washington Post:

Trump has a plan for government workers. They're not going to like it. — President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress are drawing up plans to take on the government bureaucracy they have long railed against, by eroding job protections and grinding down benefits …

Discussion: Political Wire

Numbers / Pew Research Center:

Low Marks for Major Players in 2016 Election - Including the Winner — Half of voters are happy Trump won; Democrats take a hard line — For most voters, the 2016 presidential campaign was one to forget. Post-election evaluations of the way that the winning candidate, the parties …

Discussion: Washington Post, Mediaite, The Week and Politico

Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:

Record-High 77% of Americans Perceive Nation as Divided — PRINCETON, N.J. — Seventy-seven percent of Americans, a new high, believe the nation is divided on the most important values, while 21% believe it is united and in agreement. Over the past 20+ years, the public has tended to perceive …

Discussion: Opinion Today

Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Record number of Americans think nation is divided

Discussion: RedState

Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:

Obama says he may take on Trump — President Barack Obama on Sunday started mapping out his vision of Democrats' path back—and all but pledged to be part of it himself. — In his fourth press conference in a week of sounding out to Americans and world leaders what he thinks …

Discussion: Instapundit

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

ST. LOUIS • A man being sought as a suspect in the shooting of a St. Louis police officer Sunday night was shot and killed in a shootout with police early Monday. — Undercover officers had found the suspect's car abandoned at a parking garage at Laclede's Landing, police said.

Discussion: Daily Wire, NPR, The Gateway Pundit and Bearing Arms

Fred Lucas / Townhall.com:

Hillary or Blood? Democrats and Post-Election Angry Mobs — It has been difficult to discern exactly what the anti-Trump protesters are protesting. The election is over. Donald Trump will be president after Jan. 20. — As it turns out, they have five demands, according to CNN.

Bloomberg:

Trump Brings in Wall Street Veterans to Talk Top Treasury Post — Family to join next president in Washington after school year — Career Marine Mattis may get defense post, Romney State Dept. — President-elect Donald Trump interviewed top investment executives for the role …

Discussion: Washington Post, The Resurgent, NPR, KFOR-TV, Business Insider, Outside the Beltway and Jezebel

Drew Harwell / Washington Post:

A scramble to assess the dangers of President-elect Donald Trump's global business empire — Turkey is a nation in crisis, scarred by government crackdowns following a failed coup attempt and on a potential collision course with the West. It is also home to a valuable revenue stream …

Discussion: TalkLeft, Raw Story, The Week and Marginal REVOLUTION

New York Times:
Indian Business Partners Hope to Exploit Their Ties to Donald Trump

Discussion: Washington Post, Daily Kos, NBC News, The Mahablog, RT, The Real Deal New York, ThinkProgress and New York Magazine

Jennifer Senior / New York Times:

Richard Rorty's 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming — Three days after the presidential election, an astute law professor tweeted a picture of three paragraphs, very slightly condensed, from Richard Rorty's “Achieving Our Country,” published in 1998.

Discussion: Political Wire

Globe and Mail:

Monkey incident sparks clashes in southern Libyan city of Sabha, 16 dead — At least 16 people died and 50 were wounded in Libya in four days of clashes between rival factions in the southern city of Sabha, a health official said on Sunday. — According to residents and local reports …

Discussion: Jihad Watch and The Geller Report

New York Times:

Donald Trump Pivots to Economic and Domestic Policy Posts — With Thanksgiving approaching, the transition team is putting the last touches on President-elect Donald J. Trump's national security leadership even as Mr. Trump pivots to his domestic and economic policy cabinet posts.

Discussion: The Week

James Hohmann / Washington Post:

The Daily 202: How Tim Ryan decided to challenge his mentor, Nancy Pelosi, for Democratic leader — Tim Ryan, the Ohio congressman challenging Nancy Pelosi, campaigned intensely for Hillary Clinton in his Rust Belt district. “He will gut you and he will walk over your cold dead body …

Discussion: Political Wire

Charles M. Blow / New York Times:

Trump: Making America White Again — This may well be the beginning of the end: the early moments of a historical pivot point, when the slide of the republic into something untoward and unrecognizable still feels like a small collection of poor judgments and reversible decisions …

Discussion: Lawfare, The Guardian and John Hawkins' Right Wing News

Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:

Elizabeth Warren fills the Democratic void — In the days since Hillary Clinton's stunning electoral defeat to Donald Trump, the vacuum she left atop the Democratic Party hasn't gone unfilled. — Elizabeth Warren has moved aggressively to occupy the space, a timely reminder to the party …

Discussion: Political Wire

Joe Coscarelli / New York Times:

Kanye West Calls Out Beyoncé and Praises Trump in Onstage Tirade — Kanye West likened himself to Donald J. Trump at a concert on Saturday in California before tumbling into a 17-minute, free-associative speech addressing radio programmers, MTV, his friends and collaborators Jay Z and Beyoncé …

Discussion: Los Angeles Times and Heat Street