For more inauguration analysis, we turn now to our Politics Monday duo.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both.

Amy, we were speaking earlier about how the idea that certainly American politics is different now,

the party is different, the Republican Party, the Republicans Party,

perceptions of Mr. Trump himself have changed over time.

Tell us about that.

Well, it is quite remarkable looking at what has now been almost a 10-year political career

of Donald Trump, where he started when he came down that escalator to where he is today.

But where he was at this point four years ago, sitting at about 36 percent favorable rating, one of the lowest for a one-term

president in modern history. Certainly, most folks would have thought, well, that was the end

of Donald Trump's political career. Today he comes into office with, for the first time,

really in the history of his time as president with a higher

favorable than unfavorable rating, slightly, somewhere around 47, 48%. So it's not that he's now

jumped up into, say, the stratosphere in terms of opinions about him. I think what people,

how people view him

now is with really clear eyeed they're clear eyed about who he is even though

they may not like him personally they do expect him to deliver on the promises

that he put forward especially on immigration and on the economy.

But as I said, it's not a deep well of goodwill, but it's a bigger well of goodwill than he had

either in 2017, certainly than at this point in 2021. And, Tam, to that point, the entire Trump

team is coming in better prepared than they did back in 2017.

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