'Holy Toledo!' Staggering plunge in support for Democratic Party stuns CNN analyst
CNN senior data analyst Harry Enten sounded the alarm on a variety of polls showing the Democratic Party's approval ratings falling to record lows.
Enten's report Monday came in the wake of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and nine other Senate Democrats breaking with the party to vote for the GOP's stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown. Nearly all House Democrats opposed the bill, claiming it gave President Donald Trump and Elon Musk "the leeway to continue slashing the federal government without oversight."
But when it got to the Senate, Schumer argued the bill was the lesser of two evils, with a possible shutdown harming federal workers more.
Enten referenced a CNN/SSRS poll showing a 29 percent approval rating.
"You want to go lower than that? How about 27 percent?" He said of an NBC News poll. "Both are record lows, the lowest going back to 1992 in CNN polling, the lowest going back on record to 1990 in NBC News polling. The majority of Americans hold an unfavorable or negative view of the Democratic Party at this point."
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John Berman asked, "What about Congressional Democrats, specifically?"
"You think these numbers are low? How about this one? Holy Toledo! Voters' views of the Democrats in Congress among all voters, 'disapprove,' 68 percent. And look at the 'approve' number, just 21 percent. Even lower than the Democratic Party at large. This is the lowest on record for Democrats according to Quinnipiac University polling.
Enten continued, "You think these numbers are bad? Let's go to this side of the screen. We'll look at how Democratic voters feel," Enten said. "Get this, the plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49 percent, and just 40 percent approve. Horrible, horrible, horrible! Oh my goodness gracious, you just can't get worse than these numbers."
Anchor John Berman emphasized that the 49 percent disapproval number shows "Democratic voters have turned on Democrats in Congress and the Democratic Party. That's what put the numbers at historic lows."