NCS Data Guru Harry Enten declared that President Donald Trump had suffered his “worst 10 days” of polling on NCS Friday morning.
“I would say this is probably the worst 10-day period for the president in the polls his entire second term,” Enten advised John Berman on NCS News Central. “The numbers are just atrocious!”
Enten, 37, went by means of 5 November polls displaying Trump’s approval ranking between -14 factors, which he netted in a Marquette poll, and -26 factors, which he earned in an AP-NORC poll. Fox, Marist, and Ipsos/Reuters had him at -17, -17, and -22, respectively.
Enten stated the earlier ten days had been Trump’s
“When your best poll has you still 14 points underwater, you know it’s truly bad,” stated Enten. “And when it’s as bad as 26 points underwater, we’re talkin’ about an average well, well, well underwater, in the deep blue sea, swimming with the fishes,” stated Enten.
For Enten, two key elements drove Trump’s poor numbers. The first was the president’s precipitous drop in favorability amongst independents.
Enten revealed that Trump polled at -4 amongst independents when he took workplace in January, however that quantity has plummeted to -43 in November.
Enten was astounded by Trump’s drop in favorability amongst impartial voters. / Screengrab / NCS
“When you’re 43 points underwater with independents, you know you’re doing terribly,” stated Enten. “You can’t win with this. If this holds for next year’s midterm election, wave ‘Adios amigos! Goodbye! See you later!’ to that House Republican majority and that Senate Republican majority, very much in danger as well.”
Enten jokingly shoved Berman out of his shot to handle the second subject harming Trump: inflation.
“John Berman, move out of this screen!” he cried earlier than revealing that between January and November, Trump went from a +3 favorability ranking on inflation to a -37 ranking.
Enten jokingly shoved John Berman out of the shot earlier than speaking about how dangerous Trump was on inflation. / Screengrab / NCS
“It’s the cost of living baby,” stated Enten. “You go back to January, he was three points above water. This was the reason why voters gave him a second term. You look at now, 34 points underwater. My goodness, that is a 37-point move in the wrong direction.”
Enten has spent the week analyzing the dire warning indicators for Republicans in November’s polls. On Monday, he revealed that Latinos had swung dramatically away from Trump over the course of 2025, and on Thursday, he stated that Democrats having a +9 level edge amongst “certain” voters ought to have Republicans “running scared.”
Future polls may be worse for the president. The polls Enten analyzed Friday were conducted before a barrage of Trump scandals that include him calling a female reporter “Piggy” and calling for Democratic lawmakers to be executed.