President Donald Trump’s approval rating has completely collapsed, and CNN’s Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten is calling the numbers just “awful, awful, awful” in his latest report.
“I think the simple word here is [the last two weeks have] hurt Donald Trump's popularity,” Enten said. “You can see it right here. We have two new polls, [from] Quinnipiac University [and] AP/NORC.”
“You can see this in Quinnipiac [went down] -12 to -16. How about AP/NORC?” the analyst asked rhetorically. “[Down] -16 to -21. Awful, awful, awful for both of these.”
“Both of these pollsters, where we are right now, Quinnipiac and AP/NORC, [are] the worst for Donald Trump in this term so far.” Enten added, Trump is “very much way, way, way underwater, at least in these two polls.”
Enten then took a look at how immigration is affecting President Trump's approval. “Immigration has been a strength for Donald Trump; that was why at the beginning of the week, I said that Donald Trump wanted this fight,” Enten recalled, “maybe he shouldn't have wanted this fight.”
“Let's take a look at the net approval rating for Donald Trump on immigration. You go back to June 1st. He was at plus four points. look at where he is now,” Enten said, “minus two points in the aggregate. That is a drop of six points and only about two weeks time.”
Enten added, “The only thing that's happened over the last two weeks is obviously Donald Trump's ramped-up [his] immigration hawkish agenda, and at least at this particular point.”
He later said, “The American people are saying ‘no, we do not like that,’ and they have turned against the president on his core strength issue of immigration. He is now underwater on the issue that has been strongest for him."
The Chief Data Analyst also took a look at how Americans feel about the parade for the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army, which happens to fall on Trump’s 79th Birthday.
He looked at a poll that asked, if government funds for the military parade were a good use of funds.
“Only 38% say yes,” Enten said. “How about not a good use? 60% say not a good use of funds, and get this, in the center of the electorate among independents, just 24% of independents say it is a good use of funds.”
He added, “This is one of the worst polling weeks for Donald Trump that we've seen.”
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