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‘I’ve Never Seen This’: CNN Data Guru Unpacks Trump’s MAGA Crisis

CNN polling guru Harry Enten sees Trump starting to lose his base.

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Is Donald Trump finally starting to lose the MAGA base? It’s looking that way, according to CNN polling guru Harry Enten.

As reported by The Daily Beast, Trump is starting to lose Americans without college degrees, who formed the backbone of his support in all his elections, Enten said during an appearance on CNN News Central. 

Enten also said that “backlash to Trump’s second term on issues such as the economy is also damaging Republicans ahead of November’s midterm elections, where the GOP is at risk of losing control of both the House and the Senate.”

“What’s going on is simple: The MAGA movement was built among the working class, non-college Americans,” the polling expert said.

“Down we go into the Atlantic Ocean,” Enten said. “Look at this movement now, that is a shift of 28 points away from the MAGA movement with non-college Americans. So the bottom line is the group at which the Trump movement was built upon, they are shifting away and saying we don’t like MAGA anymore.”

His net-approval among non-college voters is now -19 percent, Enten added.

“This is a 32-point shift away from the president of the United States when it comes to his key core political group. This is why he’s in so much trouble. It’s not just that college voters are against Trump now,” the expert said. “It turns out that non-college voters, the ones that he built his presidential bid on, have waved ‘adios, goodbye, see you later Mr. Trump, we don’t like you anymore.'”
What does that mean for the midterms?
“Maybe they’re abandoning President Trump, but you know what? At the midterm elections—they may not like Democrats either,” Enten said. “Well, if you’re a congressional Republican, you wish that to be true. I have bad, bad news for you.”
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