“CNN pollster Harry Enten showed that Donald J. Trump is six times more popular than Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, or any other President.”
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Donald Trump distorted a CNN poll presented by Harry Enten, which only surveyed Republicans on their most admired president, not overall popularity among the general public.
According to reporting by HuffPost and CubaHeadlines, Donald Trump's statement refers to a segment by CNN analyst Harry Enten discussing a CNN/SSRS poll. However, CubaHeadlines explains that the poll was conducted exclusively among Republican voters asking which president they 'admired most,' where 53% chose Trump compared to 8% for Lincoln and 5% for Washington. It did not measure general public popularity, where Trump's approval across all American adults was much lower, making his broad claim that he was shown to be six times more popular than any other president highly misleading.