CNN’s Harry Enten Says ‘Movement’ Toward Trump ‘Among A Key Bloc’ In Crucial States ‘Gives Democrats Some Agita’
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said Wednesday that he thinks former President Donald Trump’s gains with independents in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are making Democrats uneasy.
Trump currently holds narrow leads over Vice President Kamala Harris in all three states, according to RealClearPolling averages. Enten, on “CNN News Central,” noted Trump is now slightly leading among independents in these battleground states, a shift from 2020 when he trailed President Joe Biden with this demographic.
“What do we know about independents, right? Center of the electorate. You go last time around Joe Biden won these voters by 11 points. You look at September of 2024, a month ago, Kamala Harris was up five points among independents. You look now though, look at this. She’s only up by two points among a key bloc, center of the electorate, down nine points from where Biden was at the end of the 2020 campaign,” Enten told host John Berman. “Of course, this is a national picture … What is going on in those key battleground states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, the Great Lakes, that blue wall, right?”
“Joe Biden, last time around, won ’em by five points over Donald Trump. Look at where we are today. This is the type of movement Donald Trump likes to see in the center of the electorate, up by a point. Now, of course, that’s well within any margin of error, right? But again, it‘s the movement. It’s the trend, Mr. Berman, that we’re looking at,” he added. “And when you flip a group from going plus five Biden to now plus one Trump. That’s the type of movement Donald Trump loves to see, and it’s the type of movement that I think gives Democrats some agita.” […]
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