CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday flagged how the government shutdown “hasn’t eaten into” President Donald Trump’s support thus far, a notable change compared to the same point during the 2018-19 shutdown.
Enten — who cited an aggregate of polls — turned to Trump’s net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval), which is up by one point 20 days into the ongoing shutdown.
During the 2018-19 shutdown, Trump’s net approval rating was down three points 20 days in before it proceeded to fall “considerably more,” Enten said.
“This one is not hurting him at all. There’s no real reason Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, ‘I want to get out of this shutdown,’” Enten continued.
Enten — who highlighted how voters said they’d blame the GOP for the shutdown earlier this month — pointed to an AP-NORC poll showing that 48% of Americans blame Trump “a great deal” for the shutdown, a drop from 2018-19 when 61% of Americans blamed Trump “a great deal” for that shutdown.
