During the 2024 presidential campaign, I was actually impressed with the way CNN’s chief analyst Harry Enten covered the polls. While many in the liberal media deluded themselves into thinking that the Democrats were in good shape to win, Enten repeatedly reported on the polls and saw that things looked good for Trump.
Today is a different day. I guess the MSM overlords got to him because he’s gone all in on pushing the narrative that Trump’s approval ratings are taking a nosedive.
According to Enten, Donald Trump just had his worst day of polling in his entire second term. He cited a new batch of surveys showing Trump’s net approval rating slipping further into negative territory.
Enten laid out the numbers, pointing to four polls that all show Trump underwater. CNN’s poll has him at -5, Gallup at -6, Ipsos at -7, and Quinnipiac at -4. “Negative, negative, negative, negative. Underwater, underwater, underwater, underwater,” Enten emphasized, likening Trump’s approval ratings to “The Little Mermaid.”
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Enten summed it up bluntly: “Across the four new polls, all of them have Trump in net negative approval, and in the three with a trend line, we see Donald Trump heading in the wrong direction, swimming upstream.”
Enten cited the economy for the low approval numbers.
“I honestly never thought I’d see the day when Donald Trump would be polling so poorly on the economy,” Enten admitted. “But that day is here.” He added that just as inflation “ate the Joe Biden presidency alive,” Trump is now at risk of the same fate as his economic approval numbers continue to sink.
The last day has been the worst polling day for Trump during his entire 2nd term.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) February 20, 2025
-4 polls show his net approval rating underwater like The Little Mermaid.
-The 3 polls with a trend line show his ratings going down.
-His one time strength (the economy) is now a weakness. pic.twitter.com/l9IQOhXS9K
Here’s the problem: Enten has cherry-picked the polls. Of the ten latest polls tracked by RealClearPolitics for Trump’s approval ratings, Enten picked the only four pollsters that show Trump underwater.
Politico: "Donald Trump’s honeymoon may be wearing off," and cites recent polls of CNN and WaPo as proof.
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) February 20, 2025
I can't stop laughing. pic.twitter.com/73ySSvrYUg
Enten’s sudden pivot to declaring Trump’s approval ratings in freefall comes just a day after he highlighted Trump’s strong numbers.
"So Donald Trump and the Republicans have remade the electorate. They've turned some people over from being Democrats or independents to become Republicans. New folks have entered the electorate who are more Republican-leaning,” Enten observed earlier this week. “And so when you combine that with the fact that Republicans are really, really behind Donald Trump, all of a sudden you get a winning recipe whereby you break the normal rules of politics and give Donald Trump that positive net approval rating when he had pretty much a consistently negative one in term number one."
Missing from Enten's latest analysis is that the most recent Economist/YouGov poll has Trump +3, Rasmussen Reports (one of the most accurate pollsters of the 2024 election) has Trump +5, Emerson College Polling and CBS News have Trump +6, and Trafalgar has Trump +9.
Enten isn't the only one cherry-picking polls to push a narrative. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow joined in as well.
Rachel Maddow just proved once again that she’s the most dishonest person on TV.
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) February 21, 2025
She cherry-picked two polls to claim Trump’s approval rating is taking a nosedive while ignoring all the ones showing that the American people still support him.
“Less than a month ago, it looked… pic.twitter.com/L3EoLLGegg
Other outlets are similarly cherry-picking polls that show Trump with underwater approval. As annoying as it is, if the left wants to convince themselves that America is turning against Trump already, let them. It'll backfire on them soon enough.
