So, you know, if you know anything about Donald Trump, you know that he built his two presidential victories on winning voters who didn’t go to college, said Enten on CNN. “Well, Donald Trump’s group of voters without a college degree is absolutely falling apart.”
“What are we talking about here?
Well, let’s look at this. Voters without a college degree and Donald Trump. Look at this… In 2024, he won those voters by 14 points over Kamala Harris. Now, look at this side of the screen… What’s his approval rating now? He’s actually behind by 9 points!” said Enten.
“That’s a 23-point shift with his base of non-college voters,” he continued.
“He is absolutely losing support from the group of voters who helped put him in the White House, Kate.”
Trump has said in the past that he likes the “poorly educated.”
As it turns out, you don’t need a college degree to see that his second term is even worse than his first. The people who voted for him are struggling just like everyone else, with wages staying the same, the cost of living going up a lot, and Trump still hiding the Epstein files.
“Okay, so how are these non-college voters feeling about 2026?”
CNN’s Kate Bolduan asked Enten.
“Okay, so you see this drop of 23 points, right, from plus 14 Trump to now he’s behind by nine points,” said Enten.
“How is that affecting how they plan to vote for Congress? Well, you see a similar trend here, right? Take a look…
“In the 2024 election, Republicans won those voters, those non-college voters, by 13 points.
Now, they’re just ahead by a few points!” said Enten. “When you can count them on one hand, you know that you’re in trouble if you’re Donald John Trump and the Republican Party, in this case, the Republican Party, when it comes to the voters in Congress.”
“And of course, a four-point lead among non-college voters is not anywhere close to being good enough because Democrats are winning among voters with a college degree by 20 points,” he continued.
“Right now, the Democratic base with college voters is growing, and the Republican base with non-college voters is falling apart.”
“One of the big promises — circling back to the economy — one of the big promises from President Trump was bringing back manufacturing jobs,” said Bolduan.
“And that speaks to somewhat of this split that you’re kind of highlighting here. What are the hard numbers on this?”
“Yeah, okay, one of the reasons why Donald Trump has been able to bring noncollege voters into the Republican ranks is because he said, ‘Hey, I’m going to bring back those jobs, those manufacturing jobs that were lost to free trade, right?
Bring in those tariffs, restrict those jobs from moving overseas.’ But there’s just a bit of a problem going on here…
“How about those manufacturing jobs?
In December of 2025, compared to the beginning of the Donald Trump presidency, the manufacturing jobs have gone away. They’ve been going down, down 63,000 compared to January of 2025, with an even bigger drop since ‘Liberation Day’ right?” said Enten.
“So what we’re dealing with is a Donald Trump message that is not actually matching the reality, and that is why non-college voters have been moving away from the President of the United States and away from Republicans as well,” he concluded.
Can you feel it?
A blue tidal wave is building!
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