Trump claims election was rigged: Enten breaks down the data

All right, this morning the president doing his  thing, questioning the results of the election. His reasoning is he says the polls didn't predict  this. They didn't predict such a big Democratic. win. With us now, CNN chief data analyst Harry and  you know the Democrats did win big this election. You know what else won big? Polls. Exactly.  Polls won big. Oh my goodness gracious. How. much copium was the president of the United States  drinking before this election, going in front of.

those crowds, playing certain clips on the air,  but ignoring all the other data which clearly. showed that Republicans were in for a dropping  and Democrats were going up like a rocket. Look. at this. Okay, Democrats 2026 US Senate, they  led the pre-election polls in 54 seats. Now, at this point, they're currently ahead in 56, but  56 and 54 are pretty gosh darn close together. The polling clearly showed a historic wave for  Democrats. And that is exactly what happened. regardless of what the man at 1600 Pennsylvania  Avenue might have thought was going to occur. What.

about the House polls? What about the House polls?  You know, we heard Mike Johnson saying, "Oh, you know, no, the polls are going to be off. We're  going to starve off what is normally, you know, a midterm switcheroo in terms of the parties when  the parties are so close together." But look at. this. The final month of National House polls with  Democrats up by double digits. You couldn't ignore. it. There were 16 polls at least that I counted  that had Democrats up by double digits in the. National House vote. Yeah, maybe they did a little  bit better than we thought they were going to do, but the idea that Democrats were absolutely going  to crush Republicans, it was clear as day in the.

polling. It was a sunshine day for Democrats,  that was what the polling showed and that is. exactly what the result was. That's a lot. That is  a lot of polls. That was a lot of polls. You could. look at the New York Times poll. You could look at  the CNN poll. could look at a slew of polling that. had the Democrats up by double digits and folks  just decided, you know what, we're going to ignore. those polls. Oh, so that's the Senate, the House.  What about the polling on the president? Yeah. What about the polling on the president? You know,  when we were heading into this midterm election,

I said over and over and over again that  Donald Trump was historic in terms of being. the least like president going into a midterm  election. And you know what the polling showed. on election day? That was true. He was the least  like president going into election day. The least. popular for midterm. Trump's not approval in the  pre-election polling. Look at this. The average, he was 24 points underwater under the straight  up form moves. What did our voter poll that was. conducted on election day and before election  day with election voters? Look at this. Minus. 26 points. This looks a whole heck of a lot like  this. I don't know about you, but I'm getting the.

hankering for some double m gum when I'm looking  at this number versus this number. The bottom line. is the polls showed that Democrats were going to  have a historically strong line in the Senate. That there was a good chance they were going to do  historically well in the House of Representatives. and showed that Donald Trump was the least popular  president ever going into midterm election and. they were all right. I just kind of want to let  that sit there for a second. That was so dramatic. I wanted to sit there. Okay, now we'll move on.  What about looking for? What are the prediction. markets which is different than polling, but  what are the prediction markets saying about.

2028? Yeah, there's a reason. You know, look at  the prediction markets. I don't think JD Vance. looked at those results and when that's and he  saw them he goes you know what those results were. real and this is I think what you see here and  you know the chance that JD Vance is going to be. the 2028 Republican presidential nominee look at  this you go two years ago was 56%. Now it's just. a 33% chance scoring the cash prediction market.  I think there's a good reason for that because I'm. not even sure JD Vance after seeing the results  last Tuesday wants to run. Harriet, quite a. presentation this morning. Uh, you know what? I  am revved up and ready to go and on no coffee,

all natural. Voters just gave Donald Trump's music  a record scratch and yet he seems to be stuck on. some song that only he can hear. The president's  state of mind is in focus tonight as he whips out. his old playbook to deny what the majority of  Americans are telling him at a historic volume. It may have taken him 6 days, but Trump is now  claiming the election was rigged. Goes without. saying that's false and baseless. He also claimed  the midterms aren't a rebuke on him since he.

wasn't on the ballot. The president seems unable  to sort of deal with the reality of what just. happened in the midterms and he's going back to  the things that he knows really well. I mean, why. do you think he seems unable to recognize um what  democracy what the voters have said? Well, look, I I don't know. I can't get into his head. I think  that's a tough job. But I think obviously this. election came down to cost of living. Uh if you  look at across the board, Americans, especially.

working families, have been suffering. Uh and  it hasn't gotten the the ear that it deserved. uh from the White House or really from the entire  Republican party. But what's craziest to me, Lulu, is that out of the top 10 states where cost of  living is worse worse, nine out of 10 of those are. all run by Democrats. They're all blue states. And  what I think is going on is that a crazy answer, a bad answer, even from people that aren't really  that trustworthy on cost of living is better than.

no answer at all. And that's what we saw from the  Republican party when it comes to the median age. of first-time home buyer being 40 years old. Like,  there's a lot of reasons why we lost this race, and it all comes down to cost of living. Well, I  mean, Lydia, fair, right? I mean, I think that's. fair. You You gave, I think, a very cogent  analysis of what went wrong here. And I'm just. struggling to understand why the president can't  do the same thing. Yeah. I think the hallmark of. a good leader obviously is empowering others.  And so, I think this could be a really great.

opportunity given Trump has been on the stage now  for a decade and he is looking at the last two. years in office. I I would advise him to really  focus on choosing and empowering a successor. And. we've seen he's been comfortable with JD Vance  diagnosing some of the issues that went wrong. in the election, actually sort of supporting  him, saying, "I I agree with some of that." So, I think we need to see more of that from the  president and more of allowing a conversation in. the Republican party to continue uh and and let  new leaders emerge. Ashley, I'm I'm gonna Yeah.

Well, you know, but like Yeah, but I mean, that's  not going to happen, right? And I think like you. Republicans are now going to have to lie in the  bed they made. They have never pulled in the reins. on this man when he was not in office, when he was  in office. And so when you allow someone to almost. become larger than life to have their hand, their  footprint on this party, it is going to take that.

much volume from a a number of people. the people  that are in state elected offices, the people that. are on federal offices, the people that sit on  national television and dissect what is happening. to say enough. We you do not we don't want you  to represent our our party and but they have yet. to do that over that decade. Yes. Uh but will they  and um I'm going to play something uh now and then. Noel, I want you to jump in afterwards. Manu Raju  pressed speaker Mike Johnson known for his firm. um rejection of of President Trump um and they  and he was asked if Trump should change course.

given the midterms and here was his response. Mr.  Speaker, should the president course correct after. Tuesday? Course correct? Change change course.  You know, he named Steven Miller. He's sticking. by Pete Hex. Should he change his approach in any  way? I'm not going to tell the president how to do. his job. We have an incredible record of the first  two years of his term and I expect more success in. the days ahead. I'm sorry that uh the voters made  the wrong choice. I really do believe that this.

next two years is going to be a bit of a circus.  It's going to be chaos. And I hate to say that, but I I think that's where the Democrats are  going to lead the House. And that's a great. uh a great tragedy. I'm sorry the voters made  the wrong choice. So many of those voters made. the wrong choice. I mean, look, um, what do you  say about President Trump at this point? He's an. 80-year-old man. He is often incoherent, and it is  not at all surprising that he's reverting to form. when he says, even 6 days after the election, you  know, I I won, it was rigged. The important thing.

this time around is it's not working, right? Like  we all remember five, six years ago when he could. claim election interference. He could say it was  rigged against me and people would go and they. would march on the capital. This time, you look  at the response, it it feels kind of desperate. I I the response I've seen online is people sort  of saying that it's quite sad that the president. is is, you know, pulling out his old playbook  and nobody's buying at this time. And I think. what what actually matters is nobody's buying it.  The margins in this election were so solidly on.

the side of Democratic candidates that this is  not something where you can pretend it was even.