The polls are in, and Americans have a clear favorite party to handle the economy. CNN Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten is asking how, after the first four months of the Trump presidency, are Democrats not polling better?
“You would think after all of the waves, after the last few months, the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, you'd expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy," he said.
"It ain't so. It ain't so.”
“The party that is closest to your economic views in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points.” Enten went on to say, “Now it's still within that range, still within that margin of error. Plus eight-point advantage for the Republican Party. How is that possible, Democrats?”
He added, “How is that possible? After all the recession fears, after the stock market's been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, and Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy. Are you kidding me?”
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The new CNN poll is not the only set of data showing this trend. Enten then pointed to a Reuters-Ipsos poll, which asked voters who is the party with the better economic plan?
“What do we see here?” Enten asked rhetorically, “Party with a better economic plan. Well, in May of 2024, just before Donald Trump was reelected president, Republicans had a nine-point advantage. Look at where we are now. In May of 2025, the advantage actually went up by three points.”
“Now, Republicans have a 12-point advantage when it comes to the party with a better economic plan,” Enten said, “And again, this is after months of economic uncertainty in which the stock market's been going bonkers, in which the tariff wars that Americans are against have been going on, and yet, despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy.”
Enten added, “This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy better than basically anything that you could possibly look at.”
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