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CNN Data Guru Reveals Major Crisis for ‘Deeply Underwater’ Trump

CNN Data Guru Reveals Major Crisis for ‘Deeply Underwater’ Trump

CNN data guru Harry Enten says the number of Democrats turning out to vote in this year’s primary contests will have Donald Trump and his team “running scared.”

Enten appeared on The Source with Kaitlan Collins on Thursday, discussing the significance of primary turnout ahead of November’s midterms.

This year, there are 35 U.S. Senate seats up for election, along with all 435 U.S. House seats. There are 36 gubernatorial elections. At the legislative level, there are primaries across 43 state Senates and 45 state Houses.

Currently, Republicans have narrow control of the House, 219-212, and the Senate, 53-47. They are broadly tipped to lose the lower chamber and possibly the Senate.

Enten said after tracking the number of Democratic voters in the primaries so far, he has found the turnout to be “absolutely bonkers huge.”

“The turnout numbers in the primaries are very good news for Democrats,” Enten said, calculating that across all the primaries this year there have been over 25 million Democrats turning out to vote so far.

That is already ahead of another “bonkers” year, 2018, with 23 million turning out in total for the entire primary season.

“So Democrats are already running ahead of where they were in 2018, which was a year in which they did extremely well in the House races—not nearly as well in the Senate races, but that map was tilted against them in a way that this year’s, simply put, is not,” Enten said.

Collins mentioned that Trump quotes Enten’s data “a lot,” and asked him what he’d be thinking right now if he was part of Trump’s White House team.

“I’m running scared,” Enten replied. “I’m running scared. You know, look, the numbers don’t lie. I tell it like it is. Whatever the numbers say, that’s where I go.”