CNN’s political data analyst made a surprising claim on Sunday about where former President Donald Trump is currently sitting as it pertains to his so-called power-ranking heading into the 2024 campaign cycle.
Harry Enten marveled that the high percentage of Republican voters who are still backing Trump despite the growing number of indictments against him, which, no doubt, most GOP voters likely see as mostly political.
“The GOP base has made up its mind when it comes to these indictments. They don’t believe that Trump should have been charged with a crime. The vast majority believe that. And the fact is, it just does not seem like there’s any changing of their minds on any of this, no matter how many indictments there are,” he told host Jim Acosta, who seemed equally shocked by the findings.
“The vast majority of the Republicans are not in that Never-Trump camp. Look at the horse race numbers compared to where they were six months ago, and what do you see? In fact, you see Trump higher than he was back in February, six months ago,” Enten continued, adding, “53 percent in a recent FOX News poll.
“There has been movement downward for one candidate, Ron DeSantis! From 28 percent to 16 percent. There is one other candidate… [Vivek] Ramaswamy, who wasn’t even asked in the February poll, he’s at 11 percent now. He’s actually closing in on DeSantis for second place,” Enten continued.
“But at this point, it is Donald Trump against the field. He has the majority of Republicans in his camp and it doesn’t seem like there’s any stopping him at this particular point,” he continued.
“You might think because the majority of Americans do think Trump did something illegal, at least on one of those indictments, that it might be impacting his general election standing. But the fact is, this is from Quinnipiac University, it was a two-point race, now it is a one-point race,” he noted further. “There are a lot of Democrats who simply can’t believe Donald Trump could be elected president again. The polling indicates he is in fact in a stronger position at this point than he was during the entire 2020 campaign.”
“When the race is that close, it comes down to the Electoral College, and who knows what happens with that,” Acosta began. “We don’t even have those kinds of numbers just yet.
“But from a national standpoint, you’re absolutely right. It is remarkable where Trump stands right now when it comes to the rest of this field and with general election voters,” he added.
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