1) Polling results

• Overall approval: 51% after the speech; disapproval: 48%.
• Intensity: 47.1% “strongly approve,” 3.7% “approve”; 39.1% “strongly disapprove,” 8.5% “disapprove.”
• Timing & sample: “More than a thousand likely voters,” fielded Feb 24–26. (No pollster name or methodology details provided.)

2) Themes of the speech:

• Patriotic-historical arc: From the Founding to modern achievements, the speech casts America as uniquely innovative and liberating, invoking Providence and positioning the current era as the continuation of the 1776 “revolution.”
• Identity & destiny: Repeated motifs of American courage, industry, and an imminent “bigger, better, brighter” future.

3) Specific policy messages:

• Taxes: Pledges no tax on tips and no tax on overtime to boost take‑home pay.
• Regulation: Calls to cut rules that purportedly raise vehicle costs
• Housing affordability:
  • institutional investors have driven up prices by buying large numbers of single‑family homes.
  • A signed executive order bans such investors from additional single‑family purchases, and urges Congress to codify the ban.
  • A perceived tax-preference disparity (depreciation available to corporations but not individual homeowners).
  • “America will not become a nation of renters.”

• Blackstone’s stock erased up to $17B in value “within minutes” after the announcement regarding institutional investors and housing. (No ticker, timestamp, or source provided.)

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