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Harry Enten gives CNN's Senate polling a reality check

His midterm roundup tests Democratic polling advantages against the possibility of another Republican overperformance.

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Trump's new all-time low, GOP's popularity peril & more | Enten roundup

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0:00Enten presents Trump's sharply negative net approval rating and compares it with historical midterm polling.
2:40Republican Party favorability trails Democrats in the polling Enten examines.
5:54Registered voters who skipped the 2024 election show strong disapproval of Trump, particularly on inflation.
9:09Vance's favorability has declined nationally and in Ohio.
12:02Democratic Senate candidates hold polling advantages in several states Trump won in 2024.
13:23A scenario accounting for past Republican polling overperformance produces a Republican Senate majority.

Harry Enten's midterm roundup doesn't end with the encouraging Senate polls for Democrats. It ends by asking what happens if those polls underestimate Republicans again.

In "Trump's broken record, GOP's popularity peril & more | Enten roundup," CNN's chief data analyst moves from Trump's weak approval ratings to Republican unpopularity, voters who sat out the last presidential election and JD Vance's declining favorability. Then comes the caution: applying a past pattern of Republican overperformance to the Senate map produces a Republican majority, despite the Democratic advantages he has just described. That distinction between a polling snapshot and an election outcome is the compilation's most useful turn.

The roundup was CNN's most-watched new upload of the week, drawing roughly 281,000 views in its opening six hours. Across 15 uploads, Ohio supplied another major thread: Amy Acton's response to Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign ad featuring her estranged mother, Republican criticism of the commercial and Vance's defense of party unity. Lauren Fox interviewed Acton, while Eric Bradner reported reactions from rally attendees in Cincinnati.

CNN added about 129 million views over the week, the largest weekly total among the nearby news channels. Its subscriber count was unchanged, and its current daily viewing was slightly below its usual level. ABC News and Fox News were having much stronger-than-usual days; BBC News was running below its customary daily pace.

For CNN, the election coverage also extended beyond Ohio: Erin Burnett's latest analysis examined shifts toward Democrats in governors' races, adding statehouse contests to a week heavily focused on the Senate map.

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