CNN Pollster Shocked As GOP Obliterates Major Advantage Dems Have Had For Decades

CNN data analyst Harry Enten voiced his disbelief on Monday as the latest polls show that Republicans have eliminated the Democratic Party’s double-digit advantage in one key metric: which party looks out for the middle class?

Enten laid out several polls — including one from CNN and one from Reuters — showing that Republicans held the advantage when it came to the economy, even after four months of what Democrats and media have repeatedly painted as economic upheaval and the stock market “going bonkers.”

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“How is that possible, Democrats?!”

“Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE…! Adios, amigos!”

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“After the first five months of the Donald Trump presidency — the first four months of the Donald Trump presidency, you’d expect that Democrats would have this massive lead on the economy,” Enten began. “It ain’t so, it ain’t so! The party that is closest to your economic views, in November of 2023, it was the Republicans by 11 points. Now, it’s still within that range, still within that margin of error — plus eight point advantage for the Republican Party.”

“How is that possible, Democrats?! How is that possible after all the recession fears After the stock market’s been doing all of this, after all the tariffs that Americans are against, Republicans still hold an eight-point lead on the economy? Are you kidding me?” Enten continued.

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He went on to note that multiple polls were telling the same story  — with some even showing Trump’s numbers going up despite the erratic markets.

“Despite all of that, the Democrats are down by 12 points on the economy,” he said, “This speaks to Democratic problems on the economy.”

He finished with the key question — “Which is the party of the middle class?” — on which polling has traditionally skewed Democrat by double digits, and showed how Republicans had chipped away that lead dramatically since Trump was first elected in 2016.

In 1989, Enten explained, Democrats had held a 23 point advantage. They only lost six points over nearly three decades — dropping only to a 17-point lead after 27 years in 2016. The Democrats’ lead dropped to just four points in 2022 and as of 2025, has disappeared entirely.

“This, I think, speaks to Democratic ills more than anything else,” he said. “Democrats have traditionally been the party of the middle class. NO MORE! Donald Trump and the Republican Party have taken that mantle away and now a key advantage for Democrats historically has gone. Adios, amigos!”