CNN data guru torches Biden’s ‘flat-out bonkers’ claim he would have won re-election [Video]

CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten eviscerated President Biden’s recent claim that he could have won re-election if he had stayed in the 2024 race.

After President-elect Trump’s resounding victory in November, many Democrats have been offering theories about what could have been done differently and Biden is no exception. 

When asked in a USA Today interview this week if he would have won had he not dropped out on July 21, Biden replied, “It’s presumptuous to say that, but I think yes.” USA Today summarized that he continued by “adding he based that view on polling he had reviewed.”

Enten, however, said Biden’s claims were nonsense.

“Based on the polling data, I categorize Biden’s statement that he could have beaten Trump as ‘flat out bonkers,’” he wrote in a Wednesday X post. “Biden was well behind Trump when he dropped out. Biden never led in all of 2024. And no incumbent president who was anywhere near as unpopular …