Is regret setting in amongst Trump supporters? Not actually, says CNN’s chief information analyst Harry Enten, who pushed again in opposition to the rising narrative that 2024 Trump voters are having second ideas.
Citing new polling information from YouGov, Enten revealed that solely 2% of Republican voters say they might vote otherwise in a hypothetical rematch between Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Just 1% stated they wouldn’t vote in any respect.
“I hear all these stories, all these articles, all the Trump voters, saying they regret what they did back in 2024,” Enten stated on CNN. “I’m here to tell you, very few of them regret what they did.”
Even as polls present Trump going through backlash over the state of the economic system—54% of respondents in a CBS survey blamed him for the downturn—Enten emphasised that the discontent hasn’t considerably chipped away at his help base.
“If there’s some idea out there that Trump voters are going around, saying ‘Man, I wish I had voted for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump,’ the numbers say that is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist,” Enten added.
He additionally identified that loyalty amongst Harris supporters stays sturdy, with little signal of voter defection on both facet. In truth, voter regret was barely greater in February 2017, when 4% of Trump voters stated they’d have voted otherwise—double immediately’s quantity.
Meanwhile, the Republican Party’s picture has seen modest enchancment. A latest ballot reveals Republicans now main Democrats by 2 factors in voter satisfaction, a reversal from 2017 when Democrats held a 5-point edge. That development is according to the GOP’s efficiency within the 2024 midterms, the place they regained management of the House.
Though Trump’s total approval score stays underwater, Enten cautioned Democrats in opposition to assuming they’ll profit by default. “Pitting two people’s popularity against each other produces a different result than asking to judge them in isolation,” he stated.