CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Tuesday said Americans aren’t feeling Donald Trump’s renewed attacks against mail-in voting, claiming — without evidence — that it leads to voter fraud as he seeks to get rid of the practice.
“They feel that Donald Trump is full of it. Full of BS,” Enten said of voters in a segment with CNN’s Kate Bolduan.
Enten pointed to Pew Research Center findings from 2024 showing that 60% of Americans (including 37% of Republicans) said people should be allowed to vote early or absentee without needing an excuse.
In separate polling, 63% of voters (including 37% of Trump voters) in December 2024 indicated that Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory was legitimate despite Trump’s bogus fraud claims at the time, a 3% bump to the figure from December 2020.
On Monday, Trump took to Truth Social, vowing to “lead a movement” to abolish mail-in voting and voting machines. He then indicated he’d sign an executive order to assist in such efforts prior to the 2026 midterms.
The president — who calledon voters to use mail-in voting during last year’s election — has no legal authority to change voting laws, a power that belongs to states, per the Constitution.
The post arrived just days after Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity following his Alaska summit with Vladimir Putin, claimed that the Russian dictator told him that you “can’t have an honest election with mail-in voting” and there’s “not a country in the world that uses it.”
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In reality, multiple other countries use the voting method, and election experts have stressed that it is safe and secure.
Later in the CNN segment, Enten again turned to Pew Research Center findings showing that 75% of voters were confident that their mail-in ballots were counted as they intended during the 2024 election, a jump from 59% during the 2020 election.
There was also a rise in GOP voters’ confidence, from 19% to 72%, between those elections.
“I just think that this whole idea that Donald Trump is trying to push really just doesn’t stay with the American people,” Enten said.
“He should move on to other issues and shouldn’t be taking political advice from Vladimir Putin, who I can’t remember the last time he won a democratic election.”
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