CNN Data Guru Hits Trump With ‘Debilitating’ Reality

CNN CNN data guru Harry Enten has handed Donald Trump a painful reality check about the issue that helped put him back in the White House.

With just over two weeks left before the midterms, the network’s chief data analyst was asked on Sunday night’s Laura Coates Live to test the president’s claims that he has brought inflation down.

“With 16 days to go, Trump keeps suggesting inflation is under control and what we’re entering is the golden age.

Problem is, the numbers have just been quite a bit different,” host Laura Coates said.

CNN has repeatedly fact-checked the 80-year-old president’s rosy inflation figures on the campaign trail.

Trump has repeatedly insisted inflation is coming down, including at rallies in Ohio, Alaska, and Montana last week.

But the Consumer Price Index report released Wednesday showed inflation climbing to 3.7 percent in September, up from 3.4 percent in August, driven largely by soaring gas prices.

Enten served his verdict cold.

“Each election has a name of the game… what this election will be determined by,” Enten said.

“In this one, it is cost, cost, cost.

It is inflation.

And inflation is what is so debilitating to this President of the United States, Donald John Trump, and could be debilitating to Republicans’ hopes this midterm election.” The president rode to victory on voters’ anger over prices in 2024, according to CBS News.

On inflation, Americans trusted him over Kamala Harris by 7 points in the weeks before that election, Enten noted.

The 38-year-old added that Trump’s net approval on the issue now sits 52 points underwater, citing an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll , marking a 59-point swing in the wrong direction.