CNN Polling Guru Rains All Over Democrats’ Epstein Parade: ‘Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Has Gone Up!’

CNN’s Harry Enten rained all over Democrats’ parade celebrating MAGA infighting over President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files on Thursday during a segment in which he marveled at Trump’s remarkable popularity among Republicans.

“This morning, President Trump trying to turn the blame on, surprise, Democrats for the furor surrounding the failure of his DOJ head to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. Trump is also blasting, though, some of his own fervent supporters for continuing to call for those documents to be released,” observed anchor Sara Sidner to kick off the conversation.

“I guess the question here is: is this whole saga with Epstein having any impact on Trump’s approval rating overall when it comes to the Grand Old Party?” she asked Enten.

“Yeah, I mean, look, I think this one surprised me a bit because of all these complaints online going after Trump and the Epstein files, you might think his approval ratings were going down with Republicans. If anything, they’re going up!” he replied. “Republicans who approve of Trump, look at our CNN poll, the prior one, 86%. The one out this week, 88% with Republicans. How about Quinnipiac? The prior poll, 87% approval for Republicans. This week out, 90% with Republicans. If anything Donald Trump’s approval rating has gone up since this whole Epstein saga started. He is at the apex, or close there too, in terms of his popularity with Republican voters, Epstein files, complaints or not.”

“You just proved that not everything online is real,” noted Sidner before asking: “Is there any reason that you can find that this hasn’t taken hold and hurt him?”

“Yeah, I mean, on X all you hear about is the Epstein files. But how about out in the real public? Republicans who said the top issue was Epstein case, the answer is one, one, and not 1%. One respondent,” marveled Enten. “This is a great little finding that Ariel Edwards-Levy, who of course is part of our polling unit, found. Just one, single Republican said that the nation’s top problem is, in fact, the Epstein case. Not much of a surprise that therefore Donald Trump’s approval rating has not suffered with Republicans because of the Epstein case, because the bottom line is most Americans say it’s not up high up on their priority list.”

“Still, congressional Democrats have been trying to seize on this. You hear them also parroting what you’re hearing online, saying, ‘Release the files, this is terrible, blah, blah, blah.’ I mean, is that working for them?” inquired Sidner.

‘No, I mean, look, here’s what’s so important. You know, we talk about the potential of Republicans leaving Donald Trump. They’re not leaving him. But what about congressional Democrats and problems with their own base? Democrats’ net approval of congressional Democrats, according to Quinnipiac University, in June of 2025, it was their second worst ever at -12 points,” answered Enten. “Is that not low enough for you? How about we go even lower? In July of 2025, -13 points, their worst net approval rating for congressional Democrats among Democrats ever. Donald Trump is not the one has problems with this political base, it is congressional Democrats are the ones who have problems with their own political base.”

Watch above via CNN.