CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said on Thursday that the percentage of Republicans who believe President Donald Trump has “had a good effect on the GOP” was tied with its record high.
Enten noted that 71% of Republicans held this belief, which was significantly higher than the 62% who held it in 2023 and tied with how Republicans felt in 2021, citing CNN/SSRS polling. He added that the polling showed Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement and Vice President JD Vance were popular among the party.
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“[W]hat about the idea, essentially, not just that Republicans like or love Donald Trump, but believe he has been a good influence on the party. And here it is, just look at this,” Enten said. “Say Trump’s ‘had a good effect on the GOP’ among Republicans. When he left after term number one, it was 71%. Just before he was running for that second term, it was 62%. Now, it’s again, 71% of Republicans who say that Donald Trump has had a good effect on the Republican party.”
“I know that there are a lot of people out there, especially on the left, who say, ‘Oh my God, we just want to grasp that one little thing that, you know, oh, there’s weakness in Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP, weakness in MAGA’s grip on the GOP.’ It just simply put, isn’t there, even after this whole stuff that’s been going on in Minnesota, which obviously hasn’t necessarily been popular with the general electorate,” he added.
There has been national attention on Minneapolis, Minnesota, over the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol agents.
“But among Republicans, they like Donald Trump, they like MAGA, they like JD Vance,” Enten said. “And they believe that Donald Trump’s had a good effect on the GOP as much as it has ever been … Donald Trump, MAGA, JD Vance, they ain’t going nowhere when it comes to the GOP.”
Moreover, Enten said on “CNN News Central” July 1 that Trump was “more beloved” among his party’s voters than any other past Republican president in decades, citing his aggregate data.
Most Americans’ views on deportations have barely changed since November 2025, before the latest wave of anti-ICE protests swept the nation, according to a Marquette Law School survey released on Wednesday. The poll found that 56% of respondents favored deporting “immigrants who are living in the United States illegally,” a slight drop from 58% in November.
Among those who approved of deportations, 35% said they disapproved of how ICE was enforcing immigration, while those who opposed deportations were almost unanimously against ICE’s enforcement, according to the poll. The poll also found that 37% of respondents believed Good’s shooting was justified, while 62% said it was not.
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