CNN data expert Harry Enten delivers poll results on air to his colleagues, whether they want to hear it or not.
On the first Friday of President Donald Trump’s second term, he brought bad news to CNN morning anchor Kate Bolduan that a new Reuters/Ipsos poll found Trump had a net approval rating of plus-6.
This term is starting much differently than the last one. Enten explained that in January of 2017, Trump became the first president in (polling) history to start his term with a net negative approval rating, a minus-3. From that January to this January was a 9-point swing.
He’s not just doing better than he was eight years ago. He’s doing better than he ever did in the entire first term. His best net approval rating was a plus-3 in March 2017.
Enten really offended his CNN colleague when he claimed: “This is a very different Donald Trump. He’s leading a…