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Megan Basham

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Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

To be honest with you, no, not really. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Trump is experiencing a high watermark in favorability for him after his first couple of weeks in office. But meanwhile, that same polling group is showing a record unfavorability rating for the Democrats.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

To be honest with you, no, not really. A new Quinnipiac poll shows that Trump is experiencing a high watermark in favorability for him after his first couple of weeks in office. But meanwhile, that same polling group is showing a record unfavorability rating for the Democrats.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

Now, these results just came out last week, and they showed that voters are about evenly split on their feelings about the GOP, but Democrats are polling 31% favorable to 57% unfavorable. So a stark 26-point deficit there. And that's the lowest rating since Quinnipiac started asking the question back in 2008. And Quinnipiac isn't alone.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

Now, these results just came out last week, and they showed that voters are about evenly split on their feelings about the GOP, but Democrats are polling 31% favorable to 57% unfavorable. So a stark 26-point deficit there. And that's the lowest rating since Quinnipiac started asking the question back in 2008. And Quinnipiac isn't alone.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

YouGov shows that the Dems' popularity is at its lowest point since January 2017. And meanwhile, a new CNN poll shows that a record low 33% of Americans view the party favorably. But that tracking only goes back to 2006.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

YouGov shows that the Dems' popularity is at its lowest point since January 2017. And meanwhile, a new CNN poll shows that a record low 33% of Americans view the party favorably. But that tracking only goes back to 2006.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

As the Washington Post pointed out, if you expand that and include earlier CNN, USA Today and Gallup polls, these are actually the worst numbers the party has seen since at least 1992. So going back more than 30 years.

Morning Wire
Trade War Escalation & DNC's New Leadership | 2.3.25

As the Washington Post pointed out, if you expand that and include earlier CNN, USA Today and Gallup polls, these are actually the worst numbers the party has seen since at least 1992. So going back more than 30 years.

Morning Wire
Trump Tours Disaster Areas & Fauci Security Ends | Afternoon Update | 1.24.25

The film Amelia Perez led this year's Oscar nominations with 13 nods, including Best Picture and Best Actress. Carla Sofia Gascon, who earned a Best Actress nomination for the Spanish-language film, is the first actor who identifies as trans to be nominated for an Oscar. Other top contenders included Wicked and The Brutalist, which earned 10 nominations.

Morning Wire
Trump Tours Disaster Areas & Fauci Security Ends | Afternoon Update | 1.24.25

The film Amelia Perez led this year's Oscar nominations with 13 nods, including Best Picture and Best Actress. Carla Sofia Gascon, who earned a Best Actress nomination for the Spanish-language film, is the first actor who identifies as trans to be nominated for an Oscar. Other top contenders included Wicked and The Brutalist, which earned 10 nominations.

Morning Wire
Trump Tours Disaster Areas & Fauci Security Ends | Afternoon Update | 1.24.25

Wicked scored acting nods for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, while Adrian Brody earned his second best actor nod for The Brutalist. He won in 2002 for The Pianist. The ceremony will take place on March 2nd.

Morning Wire
Trump Tours Disaster Areas & Fauci Security Ends | Afternoon Update | 1.24.25

Wicked scored acting nods for Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, while Adrian Brody earned his second best actor nod for The Brutalist. He won in 2002 for The Pianist. The ceremony will take place on March 2nd.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

So as President Trump said during his announcement on Tuesday, the primary intent of the Stargate project is to build essential data centers and computing infrastructure that's going to enable more and more importantly, faster AI development. So right now, only a few states like Texas and Arizona have the energy grids that are capable of supporting those new data centers.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

So as President Trump said during his announcement on Tuesday, the primary intent of the Stargate project is to build essential data centers and computing infrastructure that's going to enable more and more importantly, faster AI development. So right now, only a few states like Texas and Arizona have the energy grids that are capable of supporting those new data centers.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

So part of this public-private partnership between the government and the Stargate companies is going to be to increase available electricity so that those centers can get built more quickly. This is what Trump told the World Economic Forum yesterday.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

So part of this public-private partnership between the government and the Stargate companies is going to be to increase available electricity so that those centers can get built more quickly. This is what Trump told the World Economic Forum yesterday.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

It's also about creating jobs, as Trump said there at the top of the story, but also that AI infrastructure has innumerable applications from health to military development. OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, three of the companies funding this project, are promising that Stargate is going to allow the United States to do that.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

It's also about creating jobs, as Trump said there at the top of the story, but also that AI infrastructure has innumerable applications from health to military development. OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank, three of the companies funding this project, are promising that Stargate is going to allow the United States to do that.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

Well, you know, I don't think it would be an understatement to say that Musk is not a fan of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Trump has cozied up to him for this project. So Musk has been pretty public about his displeasure about that on X recently. And this isn't new. Late last year, Musk made this comment to Tucker Carlson.

Morning Wire
Trump’s WEF Warning & CNN’s Newsroom Shakeup | 1.24.25

Well, you know, I don't think it would be an understatement to say that Musk is not a fan of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Trump has cozied up to him for this project. So Musk has been pretty public about his displeasure about that on X recently. And this isn't new. Late last year, Musk made this comment to Tucker Carlson.