‘How Is It Possible!?’ CNN’s Harry Enten Completely Floored by Slew of Horrible Polls for Democrats

CNN’s Harry Enten marveled at Democrats’ dismal polling during a Monday morning segment with anchor Kate Bolduan.

The latter kicked off said segment on CNN News Central by asking Enten, “Which party is faring better?” when it comes to its economic message.

“You would think after all of the waves, Kate Bolduan, after the last few months, the first five months of the Donald Trump presidency, right, or the first four months of the Trump presidency that you’d expect that Democrats are at this massive lead on the economy. It ain’t so, it ain’t so!” answered Enten. “‘The party that is closest to your economic views?’ in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now it’s still within that range, still within that margin of error, plus eight point advantage for the Republican Party. How is that possible, Democrats!? How is it possible after all the recession fears? After the stock market’s been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, and Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy? Are you kidding me!?”

The pair continued:

BOLDUAN: This is new CNN polling. How is that — when we look for trends — how is that trending with other data that you’re pulling in?

ENTEN: Yeah, if it was just this one CNN poll, that would be one thing. But take a look at Reuters/Ipsos. What do we see here? “Party with a better economic plan?” Well, in May of 2024, just before Donald Trump was re-elected president, Republicans had a nine-point advantage. Look at where we are now in May 2025. The advantage actually went up by three points. Now, Republicans have a 12-point advantage when it comes to the party with a better economic plan. And again, this is after months of supposed economic uncertainty in which the stock market’s been going bonkers, in which tariff wars that Americans are against have been going on. And yet, despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy.

This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy better than basically anything that you could possibly look at. And Republicans still hold an advantage on the all-important key issue of the day, and that is the reason why, even if Donald Trump’s approval ratings are a little bit lower than they used to be, Republicans are not out of the ballgame because they still have a clear advantage on economy, whether you look at CNN’s polls, or whether you looked at the Ipsos poll right here, in which they have a 12-point advantage on the economy, Kate.

BOLDUAN: And also in the CNN data, it does show that Republicans are gaining ground in an area that is key relating to all of this, which is when it comes to the middle class.

ENTEN: Yeah, you know, historically speaking, which is the party of the middle class has been a huge advantage for Democrats. I have polling from NBC going all the way back since 1989 when Democrats had a 23-point advantage. 2016, a 17-point advantage. But by this decade, we already started seeing declines back in 2022, where you saw that Democrats led, but only by four points, well within the margin of error. And now in our latest CNN poll among registered voters, “Which is the party of the middle-class?” It is tied!? This, I think, speaks to Democratic ills more than anything else. They have traditionally been the party of the middle class. No more! Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away, and now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone adios amigos, and now there is no party that is the party of the middle class. Republicans have completely closed the gap, Kate.

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