CNN’s Enten: Trump’s Approval Suddenly Surging Beyond Expectations

In addition to whenever Scott Jennings is on screen, you know CNN’s base is dreading to see Harry Enten’s face.

Following some turbulence in the polls that he covered, Enten was back to deliver a “reality check” after it looked like some were ready to “write his political obituary."

“He is rising from the dead. Look at this. Hello. Trump’s net approval rating among voters. This is the Reuters Ipsos polling,” Enter said. “Look at this, in late April, he was eight points underwater. But look at where he was in the most recent poll among voters. He’s up seven points to a minus one point net favorability rating.”

“This is not the picture I think a lot of people were thinking that we would be painting in late April. I think a lot of people expected his approval rate to keep dropping, but at least according to Reuters Ipsos, it’s in fact rising.”

This is just one poll, right? But Let’s take a look across an aggregate of polls. What are we seeing here? I want to compare both to where Donald Trump is now versus where he was in late April, as well as where he was at this point in term number one.

What you see is that minus six points, he is a little bit worse off than he is in the Ipsos/Reuters polling, but he is considerably better than he was in late April when he was nine points underwater. And more than that, look at this; he’s nearly 10 points better than he was back in May 16th of 2017 in his first term.

We see as Donald Trump is not just doing better than he was doing in late April of 2025. He’s doing considerably better than he was doing at this point in term number one, about 10 points better than he was doing at this point in term number one.

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Matt Palumbo is the author of the new book The Heir: Inside the (Not So) Secret Network of Alex Soros