CNN’s Harry Enten Debunks Network’s Spin About Trump Supporters Regretting Their Votes
“So, 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 is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist.”
We previously wrote about a media-driven campaign to make viewers and readers believe that a growing number of people who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election regretted their vote.
Leading the way with this narrative was, of course, CNN, which interviewed some self-described Trump voters in West Virginia who lost their jobs in the federal workforce and who said they now regretted their choice.
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” Bureau of Fiscal Service employee Jennifer Pigott, who was handed her walking papers, told the network.
“I expected better from you. I really did,” she also said.
Another former employee who didn’t want her name used reconsidered her vote, telling them, “I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done… I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right.”
Business Insider ran a similar story, quoting one Veterans Affairs employee as saying, “I feel betrayed. This is not what I wanted, to let everybody lose their job. ‘You’re fired. You’re fired. You’re fired.’ This is not ‘The Apprentice.'”
Unfortunately for the media spin machine, fresh polling indicates that the supposed groundswell of regretful Trump voters is pretty close to non-existent.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten broke down the numbers during a Wednesday morning “News Central” segment, effectively debunking his own network in the process:
I mean, this is the big question, right? 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. What are we talking about? Trump voters looking back at 2024. We got a new poll out. The poll was conducted this month. 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.
And then there’s this additional 1 percent who say they would rather not vote. We’re talking overall under 5 percent might or would have changed their vote, Donald Trump voters back in 2024. And then you ask, OK, the same question to Kamala Harris voters. And it turns out the numbers are rather similar. So, if there was a repeat, 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 it would be or it would still be extremely close.
The bottom line is, for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote, in the numbers, it really just doesn’t show up, John.
As to how this compares to Trump’s first term in office, the current numbers are actually even better:
OK, so, you know, I was interested in sort of an historical analogy here, sort of, does this look similar or different from back in 2017 looking at 2016? Well, in February of 2017, 4 percent – 4 percent of Trump voters say they’d shift their vote. That’s actually slightly more than the [2] percent this time around. So, you know, you look back, you say, OK, there’s these Trump voters who really regret their vote. Historically speaking, they really don’t regret their vote. And if anything, the number this time around is actually smaller than it was the first time around. And it’s certainly smaller than the number we saw coming out of 2020, of course, after the events of January 6th.
So, 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 is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist.
Watch:
Regretful Trump voters? More of a media creation than anything else. Just 2% of 2024 Trump voters say they'd vote for a different candidate now. (Numbers for Harris are similar).
Appears to be fewer Trump regretters than in 2017 or 2021.
GOP continues to lead Dems on party ID. pic.twitter.com/JngZoCdGdf
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) April 16, 2025
Did you hear that? That’s the sound of another bogus TDS-driven media narrative about Trump swirling down the drain.
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So an insider at Contrived News Network has the audacity, the gall, to refute his own network’s points? Whatever is this world coming to?
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Bet he is gone by the weekend.
Bet he was gone right after that broadcast.
He failed to play the game…like he was told too.
“So, 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 is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist.”
JR hardest hit.
And it’s only because those people who aren’t leaving have never come here and read the comments pages — otherwise, they’d all be enlisting in the David Hogg Armee.
My retirement accounts, like the accounts of 000s of others, have taken a hit. But I get what Trump is doing. I want him to succeed.
NO Democrat would ever forthrightly address America’s problems. In the case of Democrats, they are the ones who have caused them.
The remedy to Too Much Government is a greatly limited* government which is exactly what Democrats and Uni-party Republicans (Bushes, McConnells et alia) do NOT want.
*I’ve read Article I, section 8. If the document were followed fedgov would be no more that 5% of today’s beast.
Trump is a businessman and other office holders are politicians. The latter are worried about being popular, Trump intends to create efficiency and doesn’t care if that makes him unpopular. (Being a lame duck POTUS doesn’t hurt, but we’ve never seen such action from a lame duck before, either.) No politician has ever ventured to do what Trump is doing for fear of becoming unpopular and being unplugged from the gravy train in the next election cycle. This is also something that DJT doesn’t worry about. He doesn’t need the gravy train.
I love the fired bureaucrat who claims to have been “a MAGA junkie who thought that her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office.” First, who claims to have been a “MAGA junkie” (spoiler alert–no one I know). And second, anyone who voted for Donald Trump voted for him in large part because he promised to reduce the size of government. Probably a good call to help her pursue other opportunities in the private sector.
this is the set up so when the numbers eventually go higher they can act like they were unbiased and *now* trump and his agenda and any successors will be once again unfairly treated
ANYONE who is fixated on their stock portfolio daily shouldn’t be in the stock market. Stay the course, give it time. Chill.
The Chinese (and others) have screwed America for decades, it wont be fixed in a few weeks or even months.
Let me blunt. I don’t like Trump. I’ve never liked Trump. I despise at least his public persona. It doesn’t matter. I despise the democrats even more and despise what they attempted to do and are continuing to attempt to Trump. Beyond despicable.
I voted for Trump despite my opinion of him. I’m not thrilled with everything he has done but all in all I’m satisfied. Everything he has done has been within my expectations. I don’t regret my vote and wouldn’t change it.
Have I said how much I hate and despise the democrats? There is no way I would ever vote for Harris. I don’t care who she is running against. She is an utter idiot and Walz is worse if you can believe it. This is who the undemocrats decided to put up from their old style smoke filled backroom.
I can’t believe anyone would have vote for any of these cretins and yet have the country does. Go figure,
As I’ve commented before, I will vote for a scoundrel who loves America before I vote for a Puritan who does not. I no longer care about a candidate’s character. The Dems taught me this. They don’t care about character. They only care about forwarding their agenda. This is an attitude we need to adopt. Conservatives can’t keep shooting themselves in the foot by dismissing potentially effective office-seekers because of “character flaws.” Loving America and being willing and able to help right the ship should be the only needed characteristics of a conservative candidate.
Well said.
As a caveat I would say lose the litmus tests for who is an acceptable republican and who isn’t, I’m a moderate independent although that may not be apparent from some of my posts here. It is the moderate independents that decide close elections. We don’t care about political purity. We care about electing someone competent who isn’t too extreme and can be a bit flexible. We don’t like idealogues.
Let me also add that while I will probably never vote again for a democrat that doesn’t mean I will automatically vote for a republican. If they are too extreme or seem to be a nutjob I’ll take my vote elsewhere.
“It really, for the most part, does not exist.”
Well Trump won the popular vote by 1.68 and Republicans hold congress by a tiny number of seats (and you need to subtract one for Massie who there to vote with the Democrats against any Republican bill when Republicans have the house and white house and so when it actually matters) and the economy is in free fall entirely because of policies of the Trump administration.
Trump had 4% regret in his first term you say?
Well the house flipped in 2018
Trump is planning on an export tariff for the dollar risking our status as the reserve currency again and for what?
So he could get Elon Musk angrier?
So he could provide more exemptions for favored industries?
Why is it we are in dreadful fear of purchasing Ming Vase replicas while Microsoft and Google are buying Chinese electronics tariff free?
Oh that is good for the economy?
How about making good for the economy decisions for everyone and not just Tim Cook then?