Trump Approval ‘Rising from the Dead’ Like ‘Lazarus’ Says CNN’s Harry Enten

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten has admitted President Donald Trump has “some pretty good political instincts” as he stages a polling comeback this month.

Enten joined CNN anchor John Berman on Friday morning to break down the president’s later numbers, which he said were far better than most expected after his late April polling took a dip amid concerns over his tariffs.

Trump’s net approval rating sat at -8 points in late April and it is now sitting at -1 points, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey. Enten moved to aggregate polling covering the same periods and showed Trump has overall gone from a -9 points net approval to negative 6 points. Both of those numbers are better than in May 2017 when his approval sat at -15 points.

“In a vacuum, minus 6 isn’t good, but in Trumpian terms, against himself, it’s actually a pretty good position for him to be in politically compared to himself,” Berman noted.

Enten chalked up Trump’s polling comeback to the “economy, economy, economy,” noting that recession predictions have cooled since late April.

“In late April, it was 60% according to JP Morgan. Look at where it is now, it’s less than 50%. How about Goldman Sachs? You see the same thing, 45%, now falling to 35%. The bottom line is, it is the economy, the economy. The economy is the chance that a recession has fallen as the trade wars have kind of collapsed a little bit, at least with China, Trump trying to make a deal. We do see that. I do think that the voters are responding to this,” Enten reported.

“The tariffs were really hurting him and he backed off and it may be helping him politically now,” Berman said.

“Sometimes Donald Trump has some pretty good political instincts,” Enten added.

Watch above via CNN.