Donald Trump's Personnel Picks: Voters Like Huckabee, Rubio Picks, Disapprove Of Kennedy, Oz, McMahon

President-elect Donald Trump has announced many of his picks for potential nominees for his Cabinet and other White House administration roles since winning the 2024 presidential election.

While the picks still have to be officially nominated and approved in many cases, voters were recently asked to share whether they approve or disapprove of his current selections.

What Happened: Trump's announced picks have generated plenty of discussion on social media and across the political spectrum with the announced pick of Matt Gaetz as attorney general eventually saw the former Congressman withdraw his name due to concerns of being a distraction and fears of not getting approval.

A new Morning Consult poll asked voters for their approval ratings on Trump and his picks for the new White House administration.

The poll found Trump had an approval rating of 53%, down from 54% in the poll published on Nov. 17. Split by political party, Republicans gave Trump a 91% approval rating, down from 93%, Independents gave an approval rating of 44%, down from 46% and Democrats gave an approval rating of 21%, up from 20%.

Personnel Pick Ratings: Here are the approval and disapproval ratings of recent personnel picks by Trump for his next White House term.

Marco Rubio, Secretary of State: 45% approval, 34% disapproval, 21% no opinion
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary: 44% approval, 39% disapproval, 17% no opinion
Mike Huckabee, U.S. ambassador to Isreal: 44% approval, 31% disapproval, 25% no opinion
Mehmet Oz, CMS administrator: 41% approval, 38% disapproval, 20% no opinion
Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence: 39% approval, 33% disapproval, 29% no opinion
Pam Bondi, Attorney General: 39% approval, 29% disapproval, 33% no opinion
Elise Stefanik, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations: 38% approval, 29% disapproval, 33% no opinion
Kristi Noem, Homeland Security secretary: 37% approval, 33% disapproval, 30% no opinion
Pete Hegseth, Defense secretary: 36% approval, 32% disapproval, 32% no opinion
Linda McMahon, Education secretary: 36% approval, 36% disapproval, 28% no opinion
Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary: 36% approval, 25% disapproval, 39% no opinion
Doug Collins, Veterans Affairs secretary: 35% approval, 25% disapproval, 40% no opinion
Doug Burgum, Interior secretary: 35% approval, 26% disapproval, 39% no opinion
Janette Nesheiwat, Surgeon General: 35% approval, 25% disapproval, 40% no opinion
Matt Whitaker, NATO ambassador: 34% approval, 28% disapproval, 38% no opinion
Sean Duffy, Transportation secretary: 34% approval, 28% disapproval, 38% no opinion
Chris Wright, Energy secretary, 34% approval, 29% disapproval, 37% no opinion
Lee Zeldin, EPA administrator: 34% approval, 29% disapproval, 37% no opinion
Brooke Rollins, Agriculture secretary: 34% approval, 24% disapproval, 43% no opinion
Marty Makary, FDA commissioner: 33% approval, 27% disapproval, 40% no opinion
Dave Weldon, CDC director: 33% approval, 27% disapproval, 40% no opinion
Howard Lutnick, Commerce secretary: 33% approval, 25% disapproval, 42% no opinion
Russell Vought, Office of Management and Budget director: 33% approval, 26% disapproval, 41% no opinion
Scott Turner, Housing and Urban Development secretary: 33% approval, 26% disapproval, 41% no opinion
Brendan Carr, FCC chair: 32% approval, 26% disapproval, 42% no opinion

The new results did not include Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, co-leaders of the Department of Government Efficiency. In the previous poll, Musk had approval rating of 45%, 40% disapproval and 15% said no opinion. Ramaswamy had a 39% approval rating, 34% disapproval and 27% said no opinion.

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Why It's Important: McMahon received a 36% approval and 36% disapproval as the only candidate to not have a higher approval than disapproval.

This could be bad news for the former WWE executive as the last poll saw Gaetz as the only person with a higher disapproval than approval rating at 41% and 34% respectively.

With Gaetz and Musk, who had a disapproval of 40% previously, no longer in the poll, it is Kennedy who has the highest disapproval followed by Oz and McMahon.

The highest approval ratings go to Rubio, Kennedy and Huckabee. The last poll also saw Rubio and Kennedy have the highest approval ratings.

Huckabee again has the highest net approval rating at 13 points, followed by Rubio at 11 points.

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