
Evaluating the tenure of a new president after his first 100 days in office is a long-standing tradition that dates back to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s stunning success at passing legislation in the earliest days of the New Deal. It’s a fun historical fact, and a nice round number, but it has little predictive value for a president’s future political or policy successes.
What I like about the 100-day mark, however, is that it gives us an early checkpoint to measure how today’s assumptions about a new president, his relationship with Congress and the opposition party have held up. This year is also the first time in our lifetimes when we can compare the first 100 days of a non-consecutively elected president. How will Trump’s first 100 days of his second term measure up to where he was at a similar point in 2017?
Here are some of the things I will be checking on April 30.
How high (or low) can Trump’s job approval rating go?Traditionally, the 100-day mark falls within the “honeymoon period” of a first-term president; a time
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