The Note: Trump Takes a Victory Lap

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December 1, 2016

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Trump Takes a Victory Lap

The Story Behind Donald Trump's Deal With Carrier to Keep 1,000 Jobs in the US

Kip Glen was at work at the Carrier facility in Indianapolis on Tuesday night when the news began to spread that the company had reached a deal with President-elect Donald Trump that would save about 1,000 jobs that had been ticketed for Mexico. "The spirit of the workers went straight up," Glen told ABC News, "because [Trump] did what he said he was going to do and he went through with it. And he hasn't even slept in the Oval Office yet." ABC's JAMES HILL has more: http://abcn.ws/2gz1O0r

Trump Hits the Road for the First Time Since His Election

today traveling to Indiana and Ohio with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. Trump's first stop comes in Indianapolis where he will visit a Carrier facility to tout a deal struck with the company to keep around a thousand jobs in the state instead of moving them to Mexico. This evening, Trump launches his USA Thank You Tour in Cincinnati, Ohio -- a swing state that was critical to his victory in November, ABC's ARLETTE SAENZ notes.

Sarah Palin Under Consideration for Cabinet

Palin is under consideration for secretary of veterans affairs, a close Palin aide and a top Donald Trump transition official tell ABC News. The Palin aide tells ABC News that in "recent days," Palin told Trump transition officials: "I feel as though the megaphone I have been provided can be used in a productive and positive way to help those desperately in need." The VA is the largest government agency with over 300,000 federal employees and a budget of $182 billion for 2017, reports ABC's SHUSHANNAH WALSHE. http://abcn.ws/2gW6xga

Analysis - ABC's RICK KLEIN

Donald Trump, we're now told, plans to extricate himself from his businesses as he attends to the larger affairs of running the nation's business. Except, it would appear, when those new presidential efforts are actually smaller. Trump's announcement that the Trump-maligned Indiana business Carrier would keep some 1,000 jobs in the United States was met with cheers among workers – cheers that will continue on Trump's victory tour Thursday – for whom this means real jobs stay in place. The details are critical: The company cited "incentives offered by the state" that are not yet clear, and this appears to be a prime example of the kind of corporate welfare conservatives have come to loathe. (If the "crony capitalism" charge needed evidence, consider that Carrier is a major defense contractor, and the deal to keep it in Indiana was negotiated by sitting governor, who also happens to be the vice-president-elect.) Economies, even large companies, do not rise or fall on the weight of 1,000 jobs staying, while others still go. But Trump's play here is as real as those jobs themselves, and for Trump and his supporters, this looks like an early promise kept.