President Donald Trump picked up support from a notoriously "fickle" voter demographic in his 2024 re-election, but CNN's Harry Enten said that group is running away from him.
The 79-year-old president lagged behind Kamala Harris with Generation Z voters by just six percentage points in his third campaign, but that young demographic has largely abandoned him since last February, the chief data analyst told "CNN News Central."
"I mean, he has just fallen off a cliff when it comes to Generation Z," Enten said. "Look at this: Donald Trump's net approval rating in February of 2025. This was a month into the administration. He was at plus-10 points on the approval rating, he was on the right side of the ledger. Look at this – falling off that cliff. That is a drop of 42 points, to minus-32 points on the net approval rating amongst Generation Z. My goodness gracious. This, as I said, is a very swingy group and it has swung very much away from Donald John Trump."
"Okay, so if I'm Democrat, you know, I'm celebrating, yay," he added. "You know, Donald Trump has fallen off a cliff, yay. We've gained in terms of the party ID margin. Now what's important here, includes independents who lean towards the party, independents being the key word up there. Generation Z is more independent than any other generation, and you can see it here. Take a look here: 56 percent of Generation Z self-identify as independents. When you don't push them towards a party, compared to just 40 percent, the average of the other generations. So yes, they are in the Democratic camp right now. They don't like what Donald Trump is doing. But look, that ball can easily go back into the other court right now. Democrats got to take that ball off the ground. We're in the NFL playoffs, and they got to run with that ball, because if they don't, I can assure you that the Republican Party will, as we saw in the 2024 election."
"A very fickle group, to be sure," agreed anchor John Berman.
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