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Sean Trende: Real Clear Politics Senior Election Analyst talks what to expect from Donald Trump's presidency · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: So, as you know, it is an inauguration day and
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  Speaker 1: about well, actually very shortly. I think Donald Trump will
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  Speaker 1: take the oath of office and become the forty seventh
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  Speaker 1: president of the United States. It's the first time since
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  Speaker 1: eighteen ninety three year president has been sworn in for
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  Speaker 1: a second non consecutive term, the last being Grover Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: Real Clear Political Politics senior election analyst Sean Trendy is
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  Speaker 1: worth me now. Good morning, Sewan. Thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for being with.
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  Speaker 2: Us, a thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: How will President Trump's second term be different from his first?
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  Speaker 2: I think the major difference is going to be that
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  Speaker 2: this is not the ragtag band of people who didn't
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  Speaker 2: expect to win in twenty sixteen. He has a much
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  Speaker 2: more professionalized group behind him, and they expected to win,
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  Speaker 2: so there's been planning. It's I think it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the same Trump, but we're going to see a
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  Speaker 2: very different, more sophisticated administration.
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  Speaker 1: How does knowing how Washington work change things.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's more of the same. When he
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  Speaker 2: came into office, he didn't really know how to navigate
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  Speaker 2: the very different the various different pitfalls that can befall
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  Speaker 2: a new president. And he didn't really have anyone on
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  Speaker 2: his team that knew much about that. That's different this time.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I think a lot of his goals are
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  Speaker 2: going to be the same. He's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: someone that if he didn't like the first term, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to like this time around. But I also think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be more a more effective administration the
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  Speaker 2: term of achieving those goals.
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  Speaker 1: And he's attempting to achieve quite a lot even on
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  Speaker 1: his first day, isn't he.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we've already received news that he's issuing an executive
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  Speaker 2: order ending what we call birthrights citizenship that if you're
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  Speaker 2: born in the United States, you know, even to people
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  Speaker 2: in the country illegally considered a citizen. That's flying in
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  Speaker 2: the face of one hundred and thirty years as Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court precedent. But he's definitely hitting the ground running this time.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a shift in Trump's close team. What do
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  Speaker 1: they bring to this presidency?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I think I think we have, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, a more serious and more experienced group of people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think we were called back to twenty
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  Speaker 2: sixteen where he needed a Secretary of State and he
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  Speaker 2: for some reason put the president oil in that position,
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  Speaker 2: and now you have Marco Rubio, who's a very different
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  Speaker 2: member of that team. So I think, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: a different, different approach this.
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  Speaker 1: Time around, and a bit of a different inauguration ceremony
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  Speaker 1: taking place this morning as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's something that has some people kind of
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  Speaker 2: scratching their heads a little bit. You know, it is
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  Speaker 2: going to be cold, but it's not going to be
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  Speaker 2: historically cold, but he's moved it inside. There's been some
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  Speaker 2: speculation that some of this is due to security risks.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he did have the two assassination attempts on him.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's going to be a more sedate inauguration
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  Speaker 2: this time around. At least we won't be fighting about
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  Speaker 2: crowd sizes this time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there wasn't. There was sort of a few comments
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  Speaker 1: that maybe that's what he was concerned about as to
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  Speaker 1: why he moved it inside. Is that fair?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that he was a little
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  Speaker 2: bit concerned about the crowd sizes, that people wouldn't show
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  Speaker 2: up if it was cold, that he would get negative
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  Speaker 2: comparisons to Barack Obama, who you know, was really cold
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  Speaker 2: when he has inaugurated and he filled them all. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I prefer this to what we had in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: when the first thing he did was send his press
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  Speaker 2: secretary out to lie about the crowd sizes. You know,
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, as long as
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  Speaker 2: his hands on the book and he recites the oath
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  Speaker 2: of office, he is president.
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  Speaker 1: Sean, are we seeing more celebration around this inaugurration? I
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  Speaker 1: see that an idolor so ago, you know, who's who
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  Speaker 1: of Silicon Valley was in Washington, DC celebrating at a party.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, there's been a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: vibe shift, as we say here in the states are
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  Speaker 2: surrounding the Silicon Valley. They seem to have moved rightward
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the past decade. I also think,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he won the most votes this time around,
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  Speaker 2: unlike twenty sixteen, and so I think there's just a
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  Speaker 2: general sense of legitimacy about this presidency that there wasn't
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  Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen and is showing up in who supports
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  Speaker 2: it and how they support it.
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  Speaker 1: Sean Trendy, thank you so much for your time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for more.
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