‘The American People Have Turned’: CNN’s Enten Breaks Down Trump’s Tanking Polls on Immigration
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten revealed Monday how President Donald Trump’s polling on immigration has plummeted in recent months.
Last week, a new poll from Gallup showed that Trump’s net approval rating on immigration had dropped to a staggering 27%. Among Republican voters, support for reducing immigration decreased from 88% last year to just 48%.
On Monday morning, Enten broke down several other polls to show that, although the numbers weren’t as extreme as the Gallup poll, Trump has been gradually losing support for his immigration crackdown:
Take a look at this: Trump’s net approval rating on immigration. Got five numbers for you across the screen here. A lot of focus on Gallup of minus 27. That’s horrible. Quinnipiac University — minus 16. That’s awful. Marist is bad at minus 9. IPSOS is minus 8. Fox at minus 7. Bad! So going from your left side, bad to just downright terrible on the right side of your screen.
The American people have turned against President Donald Trump on what was his best issue, one in which he had a positive that approval rating for most of his term and arguably the issue that got him, of course, the GOP nomination all the way back in 2016, and one of the issues, of course, he used last year to quite a successful degree.
Enten then flipped to another image on the digital board showing that Trump’s net approval rating with Hispanics dropped to negative 26. Near the beginning of his term, his net approval rating within the group was only negative 2. That earlier figure, as Enten noted, was historically good for Republican candidates.
When CNN anchor Kate Bolduan asked how that affected the public’s view of ICE, Enten revealed the agency had also taken a big hit.
“In Trump’s first term, the average was 0 points,” Enten said of ICE’s net approval, “so right there on the bottom. As many approve as disapprove. Look at where we are now in June of 2025 — minus 17 points, all the way down. So the bottom line is this immigration crackdown [is] not being viewed properly by the American public, bringing Donald Trump down and bringing Immigration and Customs Enforcement down with him.”
Watch above via CNN.
