CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Monday flagged how the government shutdown “hasn’t eaten into” President Donald Trump’s support thus far, a notable change compared to the same point during the 2018-19 shutdown.
Enten — who cited an aggregate of polls — turned to Trump’s net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval), which is up by one point 20 days into the ongoing shutdown.
During the 2018-19 shutdown, Trump’s net approval rating was down three points 20 days in before it proceeded to fall “considerably more,” Enten said.
“This one is not hurting him at all. There’s no real reason Donald Trump might say, at least when it comes to popular support, ‘I want to get out of this shutdown,’” Enten continued.
“It’s a different world, it’s a different world,” Enten stressed.
Enten noted that Trump — despite the frozen legislative process — is largely governing through executive orders this time around in the Oval Office, signing 210 executive orders at this point in his second term (the most in a year since Franklin D. Roosevelt) compared to 50 at this point in his first term.
