With the start of the baseball season not far off, you might say CNN chief national correspondent John King is batting .000

CNN sent King out to Colorado's swing 8th congressional district -- a new district that stretches from the northern Denver suburbs up to Greeley -- to interview Trump voters just one month into his term. No doubt the network's hope was to find quickly disillusioned Trump voters who, if they had to do it again, would not have voted for him.

The segment aired clips of interviews with four voters -- and King struck out every time.

The first three voters stated, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, their continuing support for Trump. One, when asked about the apparent chaos, said "I voted for that. I love it."

The fourth expressed misgivings about tariffs, executive orders, and the peripatetic Musk. He didn't explicitly say whether he continued to support Trump. But it's fair to assume that had he told King that he regretted his vote for Trump, CNN would have highlighted his change of heart.

Maybe it's too early to go searching for the pendulum swinging back to the Democrats. No voter should expect instant results on inflation or immigration. These voters are patient.

Like the tattoo says, CNN: NO REGERTS!

Kayla Tausche, filling in for Kasie Hunt, summarized King's finding this way:

"By and large, most voters echoed the sentiment from Trump's first term, which is, we don't like the style, but we like the substance."

Not entirely unfair. Except that there are millions of Americans who not only like the substance, but love Trump's style! 

Here's the transcript.

CNN This Morning
2/25/25
6:35 am ET

DONALD TRUMP: As I've said before, it's my hope that my greatest legacy, however, will be as a peacemaker and a unifier. I want to bring peace, not war. 

KAYLA TAUSCHE: It's too early to tell how history will record the early days of Donald Trump's second term, so we decided to ask some of his supporters. 

CNN's John King traveled to Colorado's 8th congressional district to talk to four Trump voters about the president's first month back in office.

VOTER #1: Trump, I really don't like him as a person. I think he's arrogant, kind of a jerk. But . . . 

JOHN KING: A blue-collar rural guy in one of the nation's most competitive congressional districts, a three-time Trump voter who calls the president unfocused and arrogant. But Democrats should hold the celebration. 

[Speaking to voter] But if you had a do-over tomorrow and you had to pick again between Trump and Harris, what would you do? 

VOTER #1: I would still do Trump. 

KING: So, conservative-independent, is that fair? 

VOTER #2: Very conservative-independent, yes. 

KING: So would Esmeralda Ramirez Ray. She smiles when asked about Trump's frenetic first month. 

VOTER #2: I voted for that. I love it. 

KING: What did you vote for? 

VOTER #2: I voted for a president that was going to put America first. I voted for a president that was going to secure our borders. And I voted for a president that was going to make sure that we were respected throughout the world. And I believe I'm getting that. 

So, even though I support Trump, I don't believe that he's the end-all, be-all savior of humanity. Nobody is. 

KING: Like Hayes, Todd Waufle says Trump can be arrogant and pompous. But like Ramirez Ray, he's a fan of the early pace. 

VOTER #3: I like him going full speed. Let's get things done. Let's find out if the policies work, they don't work. 

But yeah, this is the baby brewing system. Boil it up there. 

KING: Waufle started Satire Brewing seven years ago. Business is good, and he constantly debates expanding. But a plan to boost sales by adding canning machines is on hold because of Trump tariffs on aluminum. 

VOTER #3: When you fly enough, you understand, you know, buckle your seatbelt, turbulence ahead. 

KING: Waufle's approach is a trademark of many Trump voters. Accept the things that make you cringe to get the things you want, like a better economy and a stronger border. 

VOTER #3: Trump's going to say what he's going to say. And, yeah, some of it's going to be exaggerated, some are not going to be true. But at the end of the day, I think you've got to, you know, sift through all that. Is he going to get things done? Is he going to get the country moving the right way? Let go right in front of your eyes. Just like that. 

KING: Austin Jenkins voted for lower taxes and less regulation. That would help his small businesses, including this cocktail bar and the Greeley Hatchet House. 

VOTER #4: He seemed like the lesser of two evils in my opinion. 

KING: But Jenkins finds the first month unsettling. Not a fan of tariffs or executive orders by the dozens or Musk popping from agency to agency. 

VOTER #4: I thought there was supposed to be checks and balances somewhere. 

TAUSCHE: I did hear from that final voter saying that he didn't like the tariffs, he didn't like the way that Trump was going about some of these things. It was too chaotic. 

But by and large, most voters echoed the sentiment from Trump's first term, which is, we don't like the style, but we like the substance. 

BRAD TODD: Harvard-Harris poll came out yesterday, and by a very wide margin, people think they prefer Donald Trump to Joe Biden. And that's what he's going to be judged against for a while. 

I think John King picked the right place to go, Colorado's 8th district, with Gabe Evans, a freshman Republican, Hispanic, former police officer. That is the crux of the battle for the House. He won the toughest House race last time. It'll be the toughest race this time. 

I think I take away from that piece what I'm seeing from polls. People think that Trump is directionally correct. They accept that the country was really on the wrong track, and it's going to take some drastic action to change it. There may be some things get broken in that process. Everything won't be perfect, but they want a president who's taking action, shaking things up. 

TAUSCHE: I guess the question, Kendra, is how much gets broken in that process? 

KENDRA BARKOFF: Well, and that's exactly right. I think there's a very fine line that they're walking. I think they've very much crossed over it multiple times. I think you saw that with what some of the viewers were talking about or the voters were talking about. It is a fine line, but, you know, there is a little bit of leeway he's getting. But at the end of the day, the egg prices are still not down, right?