CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten had bad news for Democrats who believe millions of Trump supporters are regretting their votes and are turning on the president — a popular narrative in left wing circles — during Wednesday’s installment of CNN’s “News Central.
Democrats have repeatedly pushed, without evidence the narrative of a surge of regretful Trump voters in the first 100 days of the president’s second term in the White House. The narrative has persisted even though the president swept all seven swing states and became the first Republican to win the popular vote since 2004.
Recent polling data has also failed to pick up on the nonexistent trend, which Enten referred to as “fanciful” when reviewing new data on the subject Wednesday.
“I hear all these stories, all these articles, all the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024. I’m here to tell you, uh-uh. Very few of them regret what they did back in 2024,” he said.
The network’s leading data analyst then shared the results of a new poll conducted earlier this month, which found a minuscule number of Trump voters expressing regret over their vote. “What percentage would change their vote to a different candidate? We’re talking just 2 percent, just 2 percent. That’s not even a wide spot on the road,” Enten said of the results.
“Then you ask, okay, the same question that Kamala Harris voters and it turns out the numbers are rather similar. If folks got to be able to redo their vote that they had back in 2024, would the result be any different? I doubt it would be. I doubt if it would be or if it would still be extremely close,” he continued. “The bottom line is for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote in the numbers, it really just doesn’t show up.”
“The bottom line is this, if there’s some idea out there that Trump voters are going around, ‘Man, I wish I had voted for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump.’ The numbers say that it is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist.”
The poll, which was conducted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, found that 74 percent of Trump voters remain firmly confident in their decision. An additional 19 percent said they feel confident about their vote but have “some” concerns, while just four percent said they have “mixed feelings.”
As for respondents who voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris, 14 percent said they wish they had not voted.