If it stayed the same, make your thoughts known at 2027488002. If you want to text us, 2027488003 is how you do that. You can post cspanwj and you can post on our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. A couple of pulls from earlier this month that talked from support polls earlier this month that talked about support for the president. An average of 86 of republicans approved of President Trump during his time in office and his Approval Rating has not dropped below 79 in any individual poll. If you take a look at another poll looking at the president s approval amongst republicans, 62 of people who approved of the job donald is doing as president say they cant think of anything he could do that would cause them to lose their support. That is according to a Monmouth University poll. The sample size for the question, 401. Under the why it matters section saying the figures come in the inquiry. An impeachment not a single House Republicans voted in favor of a resolution formalizing impeachment procedures. Pete wainer is a senior fellow of ethics and Public Policy in washington, d. C. And he held positions in the bush and reagan administrations and published a piece in the atlantic. The feeling is donald trump is willing to fight for them and destroy an enemy they hate and they believe hates them. They believe this is an existential, moral, and political movement. If the left wins, so much of what they care for will be destroyed. They believe donald trump is what stands between them and darkness and therefore, they have to stand with him. It was published on the 14th of this month. In our first hour from republicans only, we are interested in hearing about your support for the president. Interested in finding out if it has increased, decreased, or stayed the same. If you say increase, 2027488000 is the number to call. If you say decreased, 2027488001. If it stayed the same, 2027488002. You can text us at 2027488003 and all you have to do is put your name and city and state and then you can post on twitter at cspanwj and our Facebook Page at facebook. Com cspan. The president was in florida before starting thanksgiving holiday activities, he spoke in sunrise, florida, at homecoming rally. It was during that speech the president spoke about his accomplishments. [video clip] our administration has done things that people havent seen. Or a long time, maybe ever countryputting our second, third, 20th, 30th, we put America First now. Steel tariff, steel mills are firing back up including a 240 Million Investment in pole county polk county. We are replacing the nafta catastrophe if nancy pelosi will ever sign it and send it. We are meeting waiting for months. Usmca is an incredible agreement, everybody wants it . She doesnt want to give the people of our country a victory. All she has to do is move it forward and everyone will vote for it. It is one of the greatest deals ever and at a certain point, canada and mexico, they have been waiting for many months. They are going to say lets forget about it. She has got to sign it, everybody wants it. She has to put our Country First, put our Country First because it is a tremendous win for florida farmers and all farmers, for growers and ranchers, all over our country. She and the democrats have done nothing, they are doing nothing. They are doing nothing. It is a terrible thing. It is a terrible thing. Powell andan congresswoman showed layla i know her well, new york. They are here in florida. Put itswoman, get her to up. Nancy is on track to go down as the single worst and least productive speaker of the house in the history of our country. Rally you canl find at our website at cspan. Org if you want to see the president s comments. Republicans only. The lines on the screen and you can reach out in text and twitter and facebook. This is bob saying when it comes to his support saying it definitely increased. This president has withstood 24 7 attacks. 4 more years of this economy amazing. I voted for trump and immediately regretted it. He is reckless, impulsive, and a dangerous egomaniac. If your support has increased, decreased, or stayed the same. We start with tom, trenton, new jersey, saying support increased. Democrat was born a and my brother was born a democrat, the first president i ford for was john kennedy senator and then president in 1960 and we both went in the service and came out republican because we saw the government is pretty inefficient. I have never seen a president with so many problems. The institutional with country going in the wrong direction. Rising,tuck with the the bad deal in iraq with bush, the redline in syria, ukraine trying to get nato to get more money i never saw president s with that kind of problem and he is trying to go through impeachment at the same time, it is amazing he keeps his sanity. Eisenhower said you have to worry about the militaryindustrial complex and government gets bigger, they find more problems and they get institutionalized and you get more people to monitor the shipments to different countries. Host that is tom in new jersey. Lets hear from lou saying support stayed the same from chicago heights, illinois. Go ahead. Caller thank you. I am a nine year marine. I came out of my mothers womb a republican. I killed a lot of muslim terrorists and donald j. Trump is the greatest american to ever step on american soil. He is an american an amazing president. He is sitting number 2 behind Abraham Lincoln. Host in the three years plus the president has served in support for him, no increases and no decreases . Caller no. I was 100 for him as soon as he put his hat in the ring and anyone that is a democrat is a terrorist, no matter what color they are. Host we cannot drive that way, but as far as your support for the president is concerned, what number one reason would you say it stayed the same . Caller first of all, he is for the cops, for the American People, for the soldiers, inst host he hung up. Lets go to troy, missouri, this is joe who says support for the president has increased. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Trump is the best president since mr. Kennedy. He is a great man, trying to get andcountry back on track all the old folks around here are going to vote for him again and so am i. Thank you and have a good day, sir. Host before you go, give me a reason why the support you show for him has increased . Caller because of our military. I thought in vietnam fought in vietnam. He is standing behind them and will protect to them. I will never forget what happened in benghazi and neither will a lot of people. Thank you, sir, for your time. Say the president supports the military, what do you mean by that . I am curious . Caller he is rebuilding it. He is making it strong again. It is that simple, we need a strong military. Host next up, we will hear from dan who says support for the president has stayed the same. You are next up. Caller yes, hi. I am still for President Trump, the greatest president i think this country will ever see and i just hope he makes the democrats pay back the money the last three plus years they have wasted on this stupid impeachment crap and they should have to pay that money back and put it in our treasury. That is really all i have to say. Host even during the impeachment process as far as support for the president , nothing changed for you . Caller it was proven on tv that nothing has changed. It is all a hoax, the whole mess. Host that is dan saying the support for him stayed the same. You saw a bit of that rally yesterday and now the president s official state of residence, florida. Robert acosta, Philip Rucker writing about the rally and why florida is so important to the president. Florida is not only trumps home, but what republicans hope is an emerging gop bastion. His strategy reflects the broader push to galvanize core voters ahead of next years election by unleashing an incendiary defense of his conduct on twitter, cable news, or in front of thousands by rallying a capacity crowd of the 20,000 seat bb t center, the president try to demonstrate broad and determined opposition to his impeachment. He spoke about the congressional inquiry, delivering a theatrical playbyplay of the bombshell testimony, mocking former Vice President joe biden and hunter. See onll rally you can our website at cspan. Org as well as the other rallies the participant the president has participated in. Kansas, you are next, chris saying support has increased. Caller hello. Host you are on. Caller yes, i believe President Trump has done more for the American People accidentally than democrats do on purpose. Host give me an example. Caller i will never vote democrat again and i am a vietnam vet. Host give me an example of that when you say the president has done more accidentally than democrats have done on purpose. Caller the marine corps and canada agreement. Democrats did not even put it on the floor. Host do you mean the usmca . Caller yes, sir. Host why do you think that is an important move . Caller it will help our farmers. Twitter, that is one of the ways you can reach out to us saying i support broughtand he has record low unemployment, record high stock markets, raising wages, and a strong housing market. 4 more years of this would be fine with me. In fort lauderdale, florida, saying support for the president is decreased. Caller yes, thank you. Host you are on, go ahead. Caller my support for the president has never been there ever since maralago he had russian women coming into have babies. He is nothing but a puppet for putin. You all dont want to open up eyes and let the people see what is going on. Host did you vote for the president initially . No, i would never vote for him. Host you classify yourself as a republican . Caller i classify myself as an independent. Host republicans only this morning, just so you know. Increase of support for the president , decrease, or stay the same. 2027488000 if you say support has increased. Decreased, 2027488001. Notpendents i am sorry, independents, stayed the same, 2027488002. Frank in California Falls into that last group, stayed the same. Caller hello. Frank garrett. Host you are on, go ahead. Your mama stupid host we lost frank on that, i apologize. A previous caller talked about the usmca. The highlight the wall street journal highlights efforts saying Chinas Commerce Ministry said the two sides reached a consensus on properly resolving related issues. The message was notable because it followed a call between chinas chief trade negotiator and Robert Lighthizer and treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin suggesting behindthescenes conversations have instilled confidence the two sides could overcome their differences. That is in the wall street journal this morning. Steve in South Carolina, you are next up. Caller i am glad you mentioned trade because i want to Say Something about that, you covered it. That is one thing that may have hurt him next november if it lingers on. My respect for trump has increased. My feeling is almost a bad trump is better than a democrat these days and i go back to the article about peter you cited first. If there is a feeling he stands between good and evil and that may be a stretch, but this is a moment to explain. We believe the conservative people, that you do not killed on board babies. I wish they would take the term mother out of the law. He is giving corporations incentive to stay on american soil, giving people more spendable money, which stimulates the economy. Our economy depends on people buying discretionary items as well as staples. Let me Say Something about what peter said. In the end, people will vote party allegiance. Show . Er the jim clyburn we are first in the south and they were talking about how to get lack democrats black democrats in south karen South Carolina to view samesex marriages and gays. I have been to black churches, they dont like it. In the end, they are still going to vote democrat, you see what i am saying . When it comes down to it next november, they will say we will take a democrat that believes in gay marriage over a republican any time. Trump is trying to stand between us and an influx of people ing in that also obama did we know that is leaning toward socialism, everybody is scared of socialism. Host can i ask you a question . You talked about democratic support, so you think next year around this time or later on this year, the same support the president enjoyed in 2016 will be with him in 2020 . Caller i do and you and i both know we could put up an Electoral College map right now and get about 40 states right, it is about 10 states always out there, wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, florida. Maybe North Carolina and virginia. Those states will be important. I know i did not have to vote for trump in North Carolina, i voted independent. I knew he was going to win. Most of the people listening know how this plays out. It is pretty well figured out but for about 10 states. Media does the left by showing theor streets in l. A. And seattle because republican say you vote for a democrat, that is what you get on the east coast. It is kind of a strange situation. Host that is steve getting his thoughts on his support for the president and why it increased. Republicans only, says support has decreased. Caller his support to me personally decreased for the you just haveat to believe lies this man tells for his support to increase. He doesnt tell anything that is true. When you have people call in and say it increase, you listen to every single thing they tell you based on the economy is the greatest ever it is not the greatest. It is good, but we have to face reality. Host a couple questions, are you a republican . Caller yes, i am. A strong republican all my life. Host did you vote for the president in 2016 . Caller no, i did not. I cannot vote for someone i feel i am smarter than. I am smarter than this president. He does ghost based on can goes based on conspiracy theory. Host says for support for the president stayed the same. Caller how are you doing . It has been a while since i have been able to talk with you. I have a brotherinlaw and motherinlaw that both will not watch your station. Theyl you are biased dont want to hear both sides of the story. The reason why my support hasnt changed, they kind of put trump in there as the pitfall. Fasts were changing too and all of a sudden it was like we are on apology tour and doing this and that and it was a bunch people. To a lot of people in the middle of the country i am in new jersey, the corner of new jersey. We are basically the only stateican part of this right now. It hasnt changed, it is not like i like them anymore. I did not like him in 1980, but he was the pitfall to put in against the democrats. Host is there anything he could do that would increase or decrease support for him . , iler i will tell you what would hope he could try to get some people over to his side. I doubt he will do that because this country is so divided. Haveme, it is like i always only had my 22 rifle and stuff like that and i would never want to hurt anybody, but all of a sudden i started feeling like this country is going in a direction i cannot deal with. I am not saying that as a threat to anybody, i am just saying it is more of like in case of a problem, break the glass. James in South Carolina, columbia, saying james support increased. Caller good morning. My support for donald trump has always been high, but it increased some after a couple years ago when he asked these companies to train people with new job training to improve their lives and job status and possibilities and stuff like that and it also increased when he took a stand against china and wanted them to provide us. Ith better goods we have been providing them with a lot and they dont ever seem to be happy and i am glad he is taking a stand. Host when it came to china when the tariffs were put in place by the president and his team, what was your reaction specifically saying your support increased for him . Caller that was part of my support, i am glad he did put the tariffs in to use that as a tool to get china to pay attention, we are not going to and evennd, we need deal, we dont need to be providing more for them than what they are doing for us, it needs to be more even than what it has been. When they put down those tariffs, that gave them a payup call to help them attention. Ome things are different now i think they are talking about it and i think there is a good chance even more employment will take place in the future. Host james in South Carolina increased support for the president. Matthew, decreased support for the president. Caller with everything going on with this impeachment inquiry and even listening to his speech last night, it is always him and the republicans against these evil people. It is a fallacy, creating this fake idea of what is out there and we may be afraid of, but i dont think he is attacking or doing anything about. One of the biggest things my father taught me is you become who you surround yourself with. How many people has trump surrounded himself that are now in prison . There is no way to me someone who could surround himself with all these guilty people that is how i feel about it. I did vote for him, but almost regretted it instantly listening to his rhetoric and now he has gone on as president. Host do you talk to others about this decreased support and when you do, what is the reaction . Caller being closer in the d. C. Area, it is a little mixed. When i talk to other republicans, it is kind of the same. A lot of people, it is like your other callers, they have strong support, it doesnt matter what you say. For republicans, he is the only one for us to represent with. Who else do you have to side with . It is the lesser of two evils and i think people stick stronger to trump because of that. Host because you mentioned impeachment, ultimately how does that gauge as far as support for the president amongst republicans . Do you think those with him wil