'Fight back': CNN's Harry Enten warns Trump promise doesn't have MAGA backing
As President Donald Trump continues to sell his 2028 merchandise, CNN analyst Harry Enten says even Republican voters are blocking his re-election path.
Enten found that 76% of Americans don't want Trump to run for a third term — including a majority of Trump's own voters.
“This idea is about as popular as New Coke was back in the mid-1980s,” Enten said.
“This is one of the least popular ideas I have ever seen, and when you get three-quarters of the American people agreeing on anything, and it's in the no, you know, it's nein, nein, nein! This is one of the most unpopular ideas I have seen in polling in a long period of time.”
Even with 88% of Republicans holding a favorable view of Donald Trump, the third term is a non-starter with them. “A majority of republicans say no, 53%. Compared to 44% who say that he should," Enten said.
He added, “Now that is a sizable number there, but when a majority of Republicans are disagreeing with the idea of Trump doing something, you know that this is an unpopular idea, and it's literally half the level who say he should run for a third term that actually have a favorable view of him. The bottom line is it would be difficult at this point to see Donald Trump sailing away in a Republican primary. If, in fact, he decided to run, he would face some real competition there.”
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Enten compared Trump’s possible 2028 run to polls from 2021 asking if Trump should enter the race.
“GOP who say that Trump should run for another term in May of 2021 for a second term, 66%," Enten said.
"The clear majority of Republicans said yes, he should run for a second term. Compare that to now, where it's just 44% who say he should run for a third term. This is, simply put, just not a popular idea."
"When you are getting this fight back from the Republican base to a degree that we, simply put, have never seen before. You get the idea of why Donald Trump came out yesterday with his most forceful comments to date, saying, 'You know what, it's two terms for me.'”
Enten added, “I'm going to end the same way I started. It is about as popular as the idea of New Coke was in the mid-1980s. Simply put, nobody wants this.”
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