CNN’s Harry Enten Marvels At Just How Much Elon Musk Is ‘Actually Winning’ Despite Declining Popularity And Exodus From X
CNN data guru Harry Enten joined anchor John Berman on Tuesday to discuss the numbers surrounding Elon Musk’s place in American politics today.
“Take a look at his net favorable rating. It’s going in the wrong direction, folks. It’s going in the wrong direction,” began Enten, adding:
So if you go back to August of 2021, look at that. He was at plus five net favorable. He buys Twitter X goes to minus four, minus eight earlier this year. Now he’s at minus nine points. It’s almost as if he’s a politician because pretty much all the politicians in our country have negative net favorability ratings. And now Elon Musk has gone in the completely wrong direction when it comes to popularity.
“A lot of these dates have to do with when he bought Twitter. How’s Twitter doing?” followed up Berman.
“Yeah, So this kind of gets really interesting, right? So let’s take a look. U.S. adults who use and these are, of course, are some famous or some might say infamous social media clients. Look at this, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X is going in the wrong direction. So U.S. adults who use Twitter/X before Musk bought it, which is 27%. Look at where it’s now. It’s 21%,” Enten replied, noting the declines on the platform as other sites like BlueSky are taking off.
“It’s again, going in the wrong direction. And it’s very different from the potential other clients. You know, TiKTok’s up a little bit. Instagram’s up a little bit. Facebook’s down, but just a point well within the margin of error. Twitter/X is unique in that it is actually losing adults who say they are using this particular social media client, Mr. Berman,” Enten concluded.
“But how does he do it? How does he really do?” Berman then asked.
“Yeah, how is he really doing? So if you looked at that opening slide, what did it say? It seems like Elon Musk is losing, but he’s actually winning,” Enten responded, noting:
So the reason one of the big reasons he bought Twitter/ X is because he wanted to make it his own platform, remake it in his own image. And I think this really gets at it. Look at this. The party idea among those who regularly use X/Twitter for news back in 2022, 65% of those who regularly use Twitter/X for news.
For Democrats, just 31% were Republicans. Look at where we are today. Just a completely different picture now. It’s basically split between Democrats at 48%, Republicans at 47%. And what I should note, Mr. Berman, is this. now, this new overall makeup matches the overall electorate far better and more than that. More than that, John. Look at where Mr. Musk’s net worth is today versus where it was just two months ago. He is the richest man in the world by far.
Two months ago. Look at this. His net worth was 252 billion. Look at where we are today. 314 billion. He is by far the richest man ever to be on this planet. So, yes, he’s not as popular. Yes. Twitter/X perhaps is not as popular, but it’s a much different platform, one that more represents Elon Musk’s, let’s say, political instincts. And he is now a far wealthier man.
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