'In the gutter!' CNN analyst stunned as polls show Trump 'setting records you don't want'
President Donald Trump is rapidly losing support on the economy as a result of the chaos surrounding his tariff policy, political polling analyst Harry Enten told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday evening.
Trump's tariffs, which imposed 10 to 49 percent import duties on countries based on their trade deficit with the United States, were temporarily scaled back on Thursday, with the rate being set at a flat 10 percent for everyone for 90 days except China, which will see even larger increases.
"A week of turmoil now," said Berman. "So how do Americans feel about these tariffs?"
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"They don't like them, John," said Enten, who has been sounding the alarm on Trump's declining polls for weeks. "Opposition is well up from where it was in January. In January, it was south 50 percent. It was only 46 percent. You look at it now, 54 percent."
"Trump is losing the messaging battle," he continued. "And one of the ways we know that Trump is losing the messaging battle is, do folks feel that these tariffs are going to hurt the economy? The vast majority believe that it will hurt the economy short term. North of 70 percent. But more than that, Trump is saying, stick with me. Stick with me, right? Over the long term, things will get better. But even there, a majority of folks believe over the long term that the tariffs will hurt the economy. Just no good numbers for Trump from these polls."
"Yeah, vast majority say really bad short-term, but even a majority say bad in the long term," said Berman. "How has this affected the overall feeling toward the president?"
"Let's talk about the economic approval ratings, right, of Donald Trump," said Enten. "That was a strength of his. In the first term, he came in with a net approval rating on the economy on the plus side, +6 points. Look at where it's fallen to now, down all the way into the gutter. Well, south of -10 points. It is the worst that a president has ever been on the economy at this point in their term. And then, how does it overall impact his approval rating, right? What are we talking about? There are only two presidents who had net approval ratings negative at this point. One of them was Donald Trump in his first term and the other one, Donald Trump in his second term. Donald Trump setting records of the type that you, simply put, don't want to set."
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