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Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump Calls Into CNBC to Tout High Poll Numbers, Cites Analyst Who Immediately Refutes Him: ‘2nd Lowest on Record'
"I give him a fair shake. I don't give him a positive spin," CNN's Harry Enten says President Donald Trump asserted to CNBC on Wednesday that his current polling numbers are through the roof and that the network does not give him the credit he thinks he deserves. 'I have the best poll numbers I've ever had,' Trump told CNBC's Joe Kernen. However, the anchor quickly rebutted the president on-air, saying the high approval ratings he cited were among Republicans — not all Americans. More from TheWrap Trump Calls Into CNBC to Tout High Poll Numbers, Cites Analyst Who Immediately Refutes Him: '2nd Lowest on Record' | Video MSNBC Hires 7 From The Hill, Bloomberg and NBC News | Exclusive Seth Meyers Warns Saquon Barkley About 'Embarrassing' Trump Publicly: 'He's Going to Make You Secretary of Defense' | Video Julianne Moore, Walton Goggins, James Cameron and More Call for Nuclear Disarmament in Open Letter This caused the president to say he thinks NBC is the 'worst of them all' before citing CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten as more credible. The president suggested Enten 'went crazy over how well Trump was doing' and then told the CNBC audience to watch CNN on Thursday to 'see about the numbers.' When asked if he thought the president was correct about the polling in response to his appearance on CNBC, Enten told CNN's John Berman that he did not think he was correct: 'I give him a fair shake. I don't give him a positive spin.' He went on to look at the president's net approval rating, noting he was negative nine points, down from positive six points ahead of the election. 'If we are comparing him to other presidents at this point in their presidencies, he is the second lowest on record compared only to himself, who does worse,' Enten noted. As for second-term presidencies, Trump fares a little better, Enten clarified, but it is not something to brag about. 'When you're comparing yourself to Richard Nixon and you say you're doing better than Richard Nixon in your second term, that's not exactly a good position to be in,' he said. The president further added that he ranks CNN above CBS and NBC. The post Trump Calls Into CNBC to Tout High Poll Numbers, Cites Analyst Who Immediately Refutes Him: '2nd Lowest on Record' | Video appeared first on TheWrap.
New York Post
03-08-2025
- Business
- New York Post
CNN data guru dubs Trump the ‘most influential president this century'
CNN data guru Harry Enten has dubbed President Trump the 'most influential president this century' while rattling off the major transformations he has ushered in on tariffs, immigration and other issues. Enten argued that the president 'has been tremendously influential to a historic degree' just over half a year into his second term. 'Love it, like it, lump it — Trump's remaking the United States of America,' Enten said as he began a weekend segment on the cable news network. 'I can't think of a more influential president during this century.' Enten noted that the highest average US tariff rate in effect on another country has jumped from 2% last year up to about 18%, which is the largest rate in America since the 1930s. 3 CNN data guru Harry Enten cited President Trump's work on tariffs, immigration and executive orders to back up his assessment of 'historic' influence of the commander in chief. CNN 3 Trump has made overhauling US trade a key objective of his second term. AFP via Getty Images On immigration, the data buff noted that net migration into the US appears to be trending down sharply, by at least 60%, from 2.8 million last year. 'We may be dealing with — get this — negative net migration to the United States in 2025,' Enten said. 'That would be the first time there is negative net migration in this country in at least 50 years.' 'Trump has always run on tariffs, and he's running a hawkish line on immigration,' Enten said. 'And on both of those issues — we are seeing record-high tariff rates for this century, and when it comes to immigration, net migration, we are seeing record low levels.' 3 The president has also mounted a significant clampdown at the US-Mexico border and stepped up enforcement of immigration laws. REUTERS Based on those two factors, Enten contended that Trump is the most influential president 'probably dating a good [chunk back] into the 20th century.' Another example Enten cited was Trump's use of executive orders, having signed 180 of them halfway through his first year of his second term, surpassing all of his predecessors dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt. Trump is one of two presidents to serve two nonconsecutive terms as president, alongside Grover Cleveland.
Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Guess Who Was the Only President Less Popular Than Trump Right Now?
Donald Trump's approval rating has officially reached an all-time low—for his second term in the White House, that is. 'The USS Donald Trump is taking on a lot of water,' said CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten Wednesday. He reported that Trump's net approval rating had sunk to -11 points. 'His net approval rating has dropped nearly 20 points in the aggregate since the beginning of his presidency,' Enten said. 'The American people do not like what they're seeing, and Donald Trump's administration is in a ton of trouble at this point, in the minds of the American voters.' Enten reported voters had come to disapprove of Trump on practically every single issue of the day. Trump had a net approval rating of -14 points on the economy and foreign policy, with his never-ending tariff negotiations earning him a -15 point approval rating on trade. On immigration, which is arguably Trump's best issue, his net approval rating was only -5 points. But Enten did have one piece of good news to offer. 'There is one other presidency that has a lower net approval rating at this point than this one,' Enten said. 'The bad news is that it was Donald Trump's other presidency, his first presidency.' At this point in Trump's first stint in the White House, Trump had a net approval rating of -16 points. Enten added that since 1953, the average U.S. president has had a net approval rating of 27 points, placing Trump laughably behind. Unsurprisingly, the issue voters felt Trump was performing the worst on was Jeffrey Epstein, the alleged sex trafficker whose ties to the president have been resurfaced amid the Trump administration's hapless flip-flopping on the release of materials related to Epstein's crimes. This is bad news for Republican lawmakers who have thrown their lot in with Trump. The House GOP is delaying, perhaps indefinitely, its own nonbinding resolution asking the Justice Department to release more Epstein documents, and previously blocked a Democratic attempt to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files, with zero Republicans supporting the measure. CNN's Poll of Polls, which tracks Trump's average approval and disapproval rates in national polls, found that only 41 percent of voters approved of Trump, while 57 percent disapproved. Last month, Enten analyzed five recent polls that cumulatively indicated that Trump's 'big beautiful bill' was historically unpopular, with 49 percent of the country believing it will hurt their families as opposed to the 23 percent who think it will help them.
Buzz Feed
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Buzz Feed
Key Issue Turning Americans Against Trump, CNN Data Shows
CNN's chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday used just one word to sum up Americans' souring views on Donald Trump's handling of immigration. 'Oof!' said Enten in a segment with CNN's Kate Bolduan. Enten pointed to five separate polls from mid to late June showing the president's net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval) on immigration ranging from -7 (Fox) to -27 (Gallup). He described the range of Trump's net approval ratings as 'bad to just downright terrible.' 'The American people have turned against President Donald Trump on what was his best issue,' Enten said. The segment comes just over a month after Enten spotted how Trump's net approval rating on immigration had shot 'up like a rocket' when comparing polling from early June to data from June 2017. The president's aggressive immigration policies have intensified over the course of his second term, with massive raids of legal cannabis farms in California last week — one of which saw a worker fall from a roof, later dying from his injuries, as hundreds of others were arrested. Enten, when asked if there are signs that the polling trend is affecting Trump's overall net approval rating, turned to how the president's net approval rating with Hispanics dropped by double digits over the past few months. In February, Trump was doing 'pretty gosh darn good for a Republican' as his net approval rating with Hispanics sat at -2, per polling from CBS News/YouGov. By June, less than a year after his 'historic performance' with Hispanic voters in the fall, that figure fell to -26, per Enten. 'Now he's basically back where he was during his first term, which is quite a low approval rating, one which has brought his overall approval rating down amongst the entire electorate,' Enten explained. The data analyst went on to point to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement's net approval rating went from averaging 0 during Trump's first term to reaching -17 last month. He added that the immigration crackdowns haven't just brought Trump down, but they've brought ICE 'down with him.'
Yahoo
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
New polling shows these American voters aren't proud of being American
Registered voters of one of the two major political parties in the United States aren't feeling proud to be an American. 'As it turns out, Democrats — their percentage to say they're proud to be an American has fallen through the floor,' CNN host and data analyst Harry Enten said on July 4, sharing recent data collected from Gallup on June 30. Enten revealed new polling that showed how 80% of Democrats were extremely or very proud to be Americans back in 2015. A decade later, that number has 'plummeted to 36% now' following President Donald Trump's return to the White House in January, Enten said. 'Now, what is driving that decline? Well, a lot of it has to do with age,' Enten continued. Enten narrowed down the demographic discontent, where 24% of Gen Z voters are extremely or very proud, while 32% have little to no pride in being an American. 'I just never thought I'd see these numbers based upon where we were a decade ago, but that's exactly where we are,' Enten said. But while Democrats' pride is at an extreme low, 'this is where the trend line gets interesting,' he continued. Enten showed next that Republicans are slightly more proud of being Americans now than they were in 2015. 'For Republicans, there is no trend line,' Enten said. 'In 2015, it was 90% back when Barack Obama was serving his second term. Now, in Donald Trump's second term, it's basically the same percentage: 92%. So Republicans are still extremely proud to be an American.' One voting demographic not mentioned in Enten's analysis was independents, whose pride in being American has steadily declined since 2001, when it was at 84%. This dropped from 2004 to 2005, from 86% to 75%, jumped to 80% in 2013 and has continued to decline to where it is in 2025, at 53%. Gallup conducted its polling between June 2 and 19 and sampled around 1,000 American adults living in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., with a margin of error of around 4 percentage points. Can you guess who's Mass. governor this week? Candidate, kin marked dead on Mass. Dem database, seemingly by his rival, state Rep. Puppolo 'Sea change': Dems' views on Israel swing by 56% in 8 years 'A day of loss': Boston University to lay off 120 people citing federal funding impacts Trump admin withholds $108M in K-12 funding for Mass., throwing summer programs into doubt Read the original article on MassLive.
