CNN’s Harry Enten Blames ‘Pretty Big Dip’ in Trump’s Approval Rating on Tariffs
CNN’s Harry Enten pinned much of the blame for the “pretty big dip” in President Donald Trump’s approval rating on his commitment to imposing tariffs on various countries during a Thursday afternoon segment.
“Americans are really interested in this topic. And we can see this through the Google searches this month. Look at this, compared to last year, Google searches for tariffs up 3,233%. That is a record high for Google searches for tariffs going all the way back since Google started tracking this back in 2004. And more than that, Google searches for tariffs this month are higher than searches for JD Vance, who of course is the vice president of the United States of America,” explained Enten to kick off the segment.
“Now, why? Why are Americans so interested in tariffs? Are they for them or against them? Well, let’s take a look here. Opposition, Americans oppose tariffs on Canada. Look at this, 64% of Americans oppose tariff on Canada. How about Mexico? 59%. So Americans are really interested in this topic — which I’m not quite sure I ever could believe that Americans could be interested in tariffs — and they are really opposed to them,” he added.
“And what about how Trump is handling all of this?” asked anchor Brianna Keilar.
“Yeah, okay, so you see it here, opposition to tariffs. But here’s where I think is really interesting. Trump and tariffs, he is prioritizing, 68% of Americans believe he is prioritizing tariffs. But look, he should prioritize — just 30% of American’s believe he should prioritize tariffs,” answered Enten. “They want him prioritizing the economy. They want them prioritizing inflation. They don’t want him prioritizing tariffs. Yet, that is exactly what he is doing. So on this particular issue, Donald Trump is simply put not with the American public. They oppose the tariffs, and yet they believe Donald Trump is going ahead with them, and that is a big reason why we’ve seen Donald Trump’s overall approval rating take a pretty big dip over the last two months and change.”
“So, Americans clearly are concerned about being directly hit by these tariffs. Do you have any numbers on that front? What have you seen?” asked Omar Jimenez.
“This again, one of the big arguments for tariffs is that they help the American worker, right? So this is a question that got asked: U.S. workers come out ahead with tariffs. Look at the low percentage who agree with that, just 31% of Americans agree with that. Among independents, it’s just 33%. Disagree with that American workers come out ahead with tariffs — 49%, a near majority and very clearly- , what is that? That’s 18 points doing the quick math in my head, more who disagree than agree with the idea that tariffs allow the U.S. worker to come out ahead,” replied Enten. “So on all the different angles that we could possibly cover, I just don’t see how this is a political winner for Donald Trump.”
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