CNN’s Harry Enten Says Harris Momentum Has ‘Stalled’ While Trump ‘More Popular’ than Previous Elections

ENTEN: “I think there are a lot of folks, such as myself, who think that Donald Trump’s unpopularity is baked in. But here’s the deal. If you believe that Donald Trump has somehow become less popular over time, let me change your mind about that. In fact, he is more popular at this point in the campaign than he was at this point in the 2020 campaign or the 2016 campaign. Look, he’s still underwater, right, with a negative 9 point net favorability rating, but that is higher than he was in 2020 at -12 points when he nearly won, and it is way higher than the -27 net favorability back in 2016 when he did win. So I think there’s this real question in Kamala Harris’s mind, in the campaign’s mind, why is Trump more popular now than he was at this point in 2020 and 2016? And I think that is why you’re seeing the sharpening attacks, because they want to put him back down to here —
BOLDUAN: “Yeah.”
ENTEN: “— or even there’s no way that they’re necessarily going to back down to here. But they want to make Trump more unpopular than he is right now, because he’s more popular now than either point in 2020 or 2016.”
BOLDUAN: “So this could be what they’re seeing with regard to Donald Trump, but could it have something also to do with what they’re seeing with their candidate, with Kamala Harris or something?”
ENTEN: “Yeah. Look, Kamala Harris is more popular than Donald Trump. But Kamala Harris had her popularity rising once, of course, she became the presumptive Democrat nominee. Look, she was at -15 points back in July 17, then -4 points on August 17, then 1 point on September — +1 point, she was actually in positive territory a month ago. But she has fallen back down to -1. The momentum of Kamala Harris has stalled. And I think they feel like they have to change something that’s going on in their campaign because they were seeing a rise and now it has stalled out. Look, she’s still more popular than Trump, but look, Joe Biden was more popular than Trump, much more, and barely won, and Hillary Clinton was more popular than Donald Trump and lost. Being more popular than Trump isn’t enough. She wants to continue to see her favorabilities rise, but in fact, they’re going in the wrong direction.”