Trump's Transition Poll #s Dropping Fast | Trump Says Repeal ACA At Once
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Trump's Poll Numbers Diving
1. Only 37% of voters approve of Donald Trump's transition to the presidency, writes a new Quinnipiac University poll. Women lead the way with 59% of female voters disapproving of how Trump is doing his job.
The measures of Trump's personal qualities all are more negative than they were in a November 22 Quinnipiac University poll:
53 - 39 percent that he is not honest, compared to 52 - 42 percent November 22;
49 - 44 percent that he has good leadership skills, compared to 56 - 38 percent;
52 - 44 percent that he does not care about average Americans, compared to 51 - 45 percent who said he did care;
62 - 33 percent that he is not level-headed, compared to 57 - 38 percent;
71 - 25 percent that he is a strong person, compared to 74 - 23 percent;
68 - 27 percent that he is intelligent, compared to 74 - 21 percent.
Trump Takes on Vaccine Safety
2. Long a skeptic of vaccines, president-elect Donald Trump met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to chair a new commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity, Kennedy told reporters in Manhatan's Trump Tower lobby on Tuesday.
The unprecedented move would contradict established science, medicine and the US government's position on links between medical conditions like autism and vaccines. Kennedy is a proponent of a widely discredited theory that links vaccines and autism.
In 1998, a well-respected journal published the work of researcher Andrew Wakefield and 12 of his colleagues that linked standard measles, mumps and rubella vaccines to autism. Based on a tiny sample size of 12 and speculative conclusions, the research was embraced by celebrities like Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey and Trump who actually called upon parents to stop vaccinating their children.
The problem: The study was an elaborate fraud.
Editors of the Lancet, which published the original piece, discovered that Wakefield had been funded by attorneys for parents who were pursuing lawsuits against vaccine companies and that a number of elements of the paper were misreported.
In February 2010, the journal retracted the piece, and in an investigative piece in 2011, in The BMJ found even more shenanigans in the way the study was conducted. Some parents of children in the study reported by Wakefield to have autism said they did not, and others who were listed in the study as having no problems before the vaccine actually had had developmental issues. via The Washington Post
Trump Tells GOP To Quickly Replace Health Care Law
3. President-elect Trump told Republicans to "get to business" and quickly repeal President Obama's Affordable Care Act, saying "Obamacare has been a catastrophic event." Trump indicated that he expected a repeal "probably some time next week", then saying "the replace will be very quickly or simultaneously very shortly thereafter."
Several Republicans are very nervous about repealing the ACA without a clear alternative plan in place. via The New York Times
