CNN’s Harry Enten Shows ‘Unpopular’ Trump, GOP Still Clobbering Dems in Polls: ‘These Numbers Should Be a Major Wake Up Call’
2025-05-01T14:34:10Z
Harry Enten warned Democrats to “not count their chickens” just yet because President Donald Trump and the GOP are still clobbering them in the polls.
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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten warned Democrats to “not count their chickens” just yet because President Donald Trump and the GOP are still clobbering them in the polls.
Enten joined CNN anchor Sara Sidner on Thursday morning following former Vice President Kamala Harris’s Wednesday night speech in which she went after Trump. Enten reported, however, that voters remain fairly unchanged on Trump and Harris despite Trump’s “unpopularity” as of late.
According to CNN polling, 45% believe Trump is doing a better job than Harris would have, while 43% believe Harris would be doing the better job. Another 12% said they’d be doing the same. Trump’s lead falls within the survey’s margin of error.
“It’s not just about regretting that vote. It’s literally saying who would be doing the better job right now? And Trump continues to score a higher percentage of the vote than Kamala Harris. This looks a heck of a lot like the election result. We have just seen this in poll after poll after poll, despite the fact that trump’s favorable ratings aren’t too hot to trot when he’s matched up against who he was matched up in 2024. He still, across the polls, scores a higher percentage than Kamala Harris,” Enten said of the numbers.
When weighed against congressional Democrats, he added, Trump still comes out ahead.
According to a survey from ABC/Ipsos/Washington Post, 40% of voters said they trust Trump more to handle key issues while 32% said they trust congressional Democrats more.
“The bottom line is when you look at Donald Trump in a vacuum, it’s one thing, but when you actually match him up against folks in the real world, all of a sudden his numbers look considerably better. And when you match him up against his main competition at this point, Democrats in Congress, he is more trusted on the main problems facing the United States right now. In fact, it’s not even close. It’s an eight point advantage, which in this politics, well, that’s a wide ocean,” Enten said.
He then pointed to a survey from Reuters/Ipsos which showed Republicans with wide leads over Democrats when it comes to handling immigration and the economy.
Enten said:
If Democrats think that at this particular point, just because Donald Trump is unpopular, that they’re going to run away with it like a Heisman trophy winner, that is not necessarily the case. These numbers should be a major wake up call for Democrats. Despite Donald Trump’s unpopularity in the polls. When you actually go up against him and you put Democrats names against him, when you put Republicans as a whole up against him, Republicans and Donald Trump do considerably better. And that is why Democrats, in fact, cannot count their chickens just yet because those eggs have not cracked at this particular moment.
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