CNN’s Harry Enten: Trump‘s Net Approval Rating on Immigration Is Actually Positive, Very Much Unlike His First Term

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PHILLIP: “Okay, let‘s talk about the poll. And then I want to talk about another thing you mentioned, which is the optics of it. But but on the polling, because I think this is important, you talk. He‘s right. Trump has his best favorability on the issue of immigration broadly. But can I ask you to explain something to me, please? You have some polling that shows Americans would be okay with everybody being deported, who‘s here illegally. There‘s also polling that asks, more specifically, if you are have been in the United States for 10 years, you paid taxes, you have no criminal record, but you are undocumented. Do you support deporting those people? 63% oppose that. So how do we even make sense of these numbers?”

ENTEN: “Yeah, sometimes it‘s so interesting. You poll the public and it turns out the poll the public can hold conflicting views even within themselves. Right. And it‘s part of my job to figure out, okay, where do they actually feel on the overall immigration picture? And I think it‘s important to note, as we have mentioned, is that Donald Trump‘s net approval rating on immigration is actually positive, which is very much unlike his first term. If you ask, are we on the right track or the wrong track when it comes to immigration policy? The plurality say that we‘re on the right track, which is very different from where we were just a few months ago under Joe Biden. So, yeah, you see those polling and you see it‘s conflicting. It kind of actually reminds me a little bit of the gun control debate, right. Where you see, oh, my god, 90% backed background checks. And then of course, you look at ballot measures in places like Nevada and Maine. And then when it‘s actually on the ballot, it‘s basically 5050, in my opinion, on this particular topic, what we‘re really talking about and the m”etric we should be looking to is do people like when they ask, do you like what Donald Trump is doing on immigration?