CNN’s John Berman and Harry Enten Mock Trump’s ‘Shrinkage’ With His Base: ‘Very Big Development’
CNN’s John Berman and Harry Enten mocked Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump over his declining margins with non-college educated white voters on Monday, with Berman making an innuendo-laden joke about the former President’s “shrinkage.”
After Berman noted that the cohort had long been one of Trump’s “key demographics,” Enten said that, “We’ve seen so many groups this year moving in Donald Trump’s direction, so you would think his core group, his base of support, would be doing the same. But in fact, it’s moving a little bit away from him,” before showing that while Trump won the group nationally by 33 points in 2016 and 31 in 2020, polling now indicates that he’s winning them by just 27%.
“Shrinkage, as Donald Trump might say, based on what he’s said the last few days,” commented Berman before asking, “Why could even a small difference with this group matter?”
“Why can a small difference with this group matter? Because look at what percentage of the electorate that they make up. So we can look nationally, right? Look at this: Non-college white voters make up 40% of the electorate. That’s more than college whites at 29%. All other groups, voters of color at 28%,” replied Enten after agreeing enthusiastically with Berman’s word choice. “Why don’t you go to those key Great Lake battleground states, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. They have outsized import in those Great Lake battleground states. Non-college white voters, look at this, they make up the slim majority of voters at 51%, way more than college whites at 30%, way more than all other voters at 16%. So if you’re seeing movement in the Great Lake battleground states among non-college whites, that could be a very big development, John.”
“Are we seeing movement in the battleground states among non-college whites?” inquired Berman.
Enten quickly pulled up a graphic showing that Trump won the demographic by 25% in 2016 and 22% in 2020 in the Blue Wall states, but is leading by just 19% there now.
“When you have a shrinking margin for Donald Trump among his core group that makes up the majority of voters, it can make up for big shifts among smaller groups in the electorate. And this is why Kamala Harris is still in the ball game right now,” he observed.
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