CNN’s Harry Enten Breaks Down Brutal Polling for Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill: ‘They Hate It, Hate It, Hate It!’
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday argued that the majority of Americans “hate” President Donald Trump’s massive spending package.
On Saturday night, the Senate voted to begin debate on the “Big, Beautiful Bill.” It was the just the latest in a long list of hurdles needed for the Trump administration to pass the bill.
While Congress — and specifically the Republican Party — continue to argue over the viability of the bill, American citizens seem to have formed a consensus, according to Enten:
I’ll give you some adjectives. How about “awful,” “horrible,” and — to quote our dear friend Mr. Sir Charles Barkley — “terrible, terrible, terrible.” What are we talking about here? Well, why don’t we take a look at the Big, Beautiful Bill. I got four, five — not just four — five different polls across the screen for you. This is the net favorable rating. The highest rating comes from the Washington Post at minus-19 points. How about Pew? Minus-20 points. How about Fox? Minus-21. Quinnipiac, minus-26. And KFF takes the cake at minus-29 points.
When you have a bill whose net favorable rating ranges from minus-19 points — which is already terrible — all the way to minus-29 points, the bottom line is the American people don’t see this as a big, beautiful bill. They see it as a big, bad bill. They hate it, hate it, hate it! They think it’s awful, awful, awful!
Enten also broke down a sharp contrast between the perception of Trump’s first term and perception of the spending package:
Donald Trump got a elected to a second term because people look back at his first term and they said, “You know, we thought his first term agenda helped our family.” You see this here. “Trump’s policies and your family.” Trump’s first term agenda, 44% said it helped their family compared to 31% who said hurt; but look at the Big, Beautiful Bill. Look at this. Just 23% of Americans say that the Big, Beautiful Bill helps their family compared to 49% who says it hurts their family. No wonder they hate this bill.
Folks elected Donald Trump to a second term because they wanted him and his policies to help their family, but they think the Big, Beautiful Bill does the exact opposite of that. They think it hurts their family.
Watch above via CNN