CNN Data Guru Finds Even More Bad News for Trump in His Poll Plunge

Tasos Katopodis / Getty Images President Donald Trump’s nosedive in the polls is even worse than first realized.

The 80-year-old’s approval rating has been in a tailspin since his return to the White House last year, despite the president constantly dismissing any negative numbers as “fake.” During his first term at the Resolute Desk, Republicans’ fortunes in the 2018 midterms were widely regarded as a failure after losing control of the House, but drilling into the numbers, CNN’s data guru Harry Enten has suggested that this year’s could be even worse.

“You know, if this were a game of limbo, President Trump would be winning,” Enten said on Tuesday.

“Unfortunately, this is the game of presidential popularity, and he is reaching record lows yet again.

He is losing.

“Trump net approval hits a term-two low, 31 points underwater.

31 points underwater according to the Reuters Ipsos Poll.

Look where he was at the beginning of term number two.

He was at plus six points.

So he is down… 37 points from where he was at the beginning of his second presidency.

“President Trump was unpopular going into the midterms during his first presidency, but not anywhere as unpopular as this.

He was 12 points underwater.

“He is doing 19 points worse than he was doing in term number one at this point.

And of course, those midterms were quite disastrous for the Republican Party.