'Never thought I'd see the day': CNN expert stunned as data show Trump approval plummet

CNN's Harry Enten expressed shock at new polling that shows voters are losing trust in Donald Trump's handling of the economy.

The senior analyst for the network examined the aggregate findings of numerous surveys taking the temperature of voters a month into the president's second term, and found him bleeding support — especially on the economy.

"These four polls, all of them tell a consistent story, and that is Trump is on the negative side of the ledger," Enten said. "His net approval is negative. He is underwater like 'The Little Mermaid.'

"We don't have a CNN poll to compare, but we do have the other three pollsters that we can look at. Trump's net approval rating, the change since January – look at this, Gallup down five points, Quinnipiac down seven points, Ipsos down 13 points. They polled right at the beginning of his presidency, so not a big surprise that that shows the worst, the worst change for Donald Trump. But the bottom line is this: Across the four new polls that we have, all of them have Trump in net negative approval rating, and the three in which we have a trend line, we see Donald Trump heading in the wrong direction, swimming upstream."

The president should be especially concerned by the factor that's driving those losses, Enten said, because the same thing ended up dragging down Joe Biden's presidency.

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"One of Donald Trump's great strengths during his first term, one of Donald Trump's great strengths during the 2024 campaign, was the economy, the idea that Donald Trump could fix the economy," Enten said.

"This was one of Donald Trump's great strengths, now it's one of his great weaknesses. What am I talking about? Trump's net approval rating. You go back to his first term, February 2017 – Ipsos, he was at plus-16 points on his net approval, Quinnipiac plus-six. Look at where he is now in Ipsos, he's eight points underwater on the economy. Quinnipiac four points under on the economy."

"I honestly never thought I'd see the day in which Donald Trump would be polling so poor on the economy – but that day is here," Enten added. "As I said last week, inflation ate the Joe Biden presidency alive, and right now it is very much the case that Donald Trump is in danger of inflation eating his presidency alive, because his net approval ratings on the economy are underwater."

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