‘Nightmares!’ CNN’s Harry Enten Declares Trump Is Losing on Likeability, the Issues, and Messaging

CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten outlined how Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is losing to his Democratic counterpart, Kamala Harris, on likeability, the issues, and campaign messaging on Monday morning.

He began with the likeability gap.

“I’ve been talking about JD Vance’s net negative favorability rating — that is more people view him unfavorably than favorably. Donald Trump has the same thing,” he said. “Jump over to the Democratic side with me if you will. Take a look here, Kamala Harris is actually better liked by more voters than she is disliked at a plus two net favorable rating. And then Tim Walz here at a plus 11 rating. It’s as simple as this: Politics is about being liked, and the Democratic ticket is better liked than the Republican ticket.”

Then he moved on to more substantive matters:

So let’s take a look here, all right? Trust more on the issue that’s most important to you — this is among likely voters. In June we’re going to look at a national number. Look at this: We see Donald Trump at 50%, look at Joe Biden at just 40%. So Donald Trump had a ten point lead on the issue that folks said was most important to them, they could list any issue. Jump forward now to Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, what do we see? We see a completely different ballgame. We see Harris at 50%, we see Donald Trump at 48%.

“But a ten point advantage for Trump. I mean, you go and this is the type of stuff that campaigns dream about and if you’re Donald Trump, nightmares about! Look at this Harris now with the two point advantage. This is significant movement,” continued Enten.

“Each candidate campaign is trying to frame the other in a certain way,” noted John Berman, bringing the segment around to the final topic. “You have Harris and Walz calling Trump and Vance weird, and you have Trump and Vance and some Republicans suggesting Harris didn’t earn this, no one voted for her in the primaries. What’s sticking?”

“So this is registered voters across the seven closest states back in the 2020 campaign — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Earn their position: Kamala Harris, 45% of voters say that she earned her position, compare that to Donald Trump, just 42%. Donald Trump and his campaign is losing the messaging war right here,” replied Enten. “How about they are weird? This is not where Donald Trump wants to be leading it, but 55% of voters in those seven states say that Donald Trump is weird compared to just 39% for Harris. So the Harris campaign, their messaging ,or the messaging against them is not working for the Trump campaign. And the messaging from the Harris campaign is working against the Trump campaign.”

Watch above via CNN.

 

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