CNN data reporter Harry Enten marveled at recent polling on immigration giving former President Trump a huge lead over President Biden on handling of the border crisis.
Voters gave Trump a 27-point advantage over Biden on handling border security, according May 2024 polling from Marquette University Law School and CNBC. That's a dramatic jump from June 2020, when Enten said polling put Biden one point ahead of Trump on the immigration issue. The border has become 'massively important' to voters, he continued. Voters in a May 2024 Gallup poll ranked immigration as the No. 2 issue facing America.
According to the two CNN polls Enten cited, 47% of immigrant voters prefer Trump, whereas 44% support Biden for president. 'Look at this, you might expect this to be a Democratic-leaning group. Nuh uh,' he remarked. 'It just sort of shows you how the issue of immigration has moved wildly against the current president, very much in the direction of the former president, no matter which way you look at it,' he continued.
The American people demand solutions to fix our broken immigration system, but at every step of the way, Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans have made clear they only want chaos and partisan politics as usual. Every American should know that Trump proudly killed the strongest bipartisan border bill in a generation – siding with fentanyl traffickers over the Border Patrol and our security,' Biden-Harris 2024 Spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement announcing the Executive Order.