'Doom for the president’s party': Analyst says there’s 'no way to sugarcoat' Trump’s 'awful' polling
U.S President Donald Trump speaks to members of press onboard Air Force One on a flight to Fiumicino Airport near Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis, April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
Americans are “turning on” President Donald Trump “after propelling him back into office just six months ago,” CNN’s Jessica Dean reports.
In a segment on CNN’s Inside Politics Sunday, Dean invited data analyst Harry Enten on to discuss Trump’s 41 percent approval rating — which she described as “the lowest for any president at this point in his term in the history of modern polling.”
“These numbers are just horrible — there’s no way to sugarcoat it,” Enten told Dean. “And the first way we'll sort of point that out is we'll look at where Donald Trump is now versus where he was 100 days into his first presidency. And you see it here, you don't have to be a mathematical genius. 41 percent approve of him now. It was 44 percent back in 2017 around the 100 day mark.”
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“The American people do not like what they are seeing at this point from Donald John Trump,” Enten added.
“The bottom line here is just very simply the numbers for Donald Trump are awful, awful, awful in this poll,” Enten said.
The CNN data analyst noted “54 percent of Americans have no confidence that Trump will use the power of the presidency responsibly.”
"And so, this just tells you, on every single different data point you could possibly look at, whether it be Trump's overall approval, whether it be the issues for Donald Trump or how he conducts himself in office, all of these numbers are pretty much terrible for Donald Trump at this point,” the analyst said.
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Wall Street Journal political correspondent Molly Ball said the fact Trump has “lost his advantage on the economy is a really big blinking red light that a lot of Republicans are concerned about, because for so long that was his his signature advantage.”
“The fact that that has turned upside down and his ratings on the economy are now worse than his overall ratings is a really big red flag, I think, for him and for the entire Republican party," Ball said.
Enten later argued "there is pretty much zero chance — if Donald Trump's approval rating is 41 percent in November of 2026 — the Republicans have any shot of holding the House of Representatives" in the midterm elections in 2026.
"There is no -- I repeat, there is no -- precedent for a president's approval rating being as low as Donald Trump's is right now and then his party holding on to the House in the midterm elections,” Enten said. “… When you look at approval ratings this low, this early, you look at where the generic ballot is this low this early, that usually spells doom for the president’s party when it comes to the midterm elections.”
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