CNN's Harry Enten highlighted new polling data that suggested President Donald Trump's handling of one key issue could cut into his overall approval rating.

The president has been unable to turn the page on his longtime association with Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender, and the issue exploded into view once again as the House returned to session and the Oversight Committee dumped thousands of emails obtained from the Epstein estate – many of which mention Trump by name and suggest their relationship continued into his first term in office.

"You know, Donald Trump is underwater on basically every single issue he ran on in 2024," Enten said. "But the Epstein files, the Epstein case are especially dreadful for him. What are we talking about here? Let's take a look at Trump's approval rating on the issues. Look, they're all in red, they're all in the negative territory. But on immigration, you know, he's five points underwater, foreign policy, eight points. Trade and tariffs, he's 17 points [underwater], the economy, 18 points."

"But look at the Epstein case – he is 39 points below water on the Epstein case, that approval is 39 points in the negative," Enten added. "My goodness gracious. What Donald Trump has been selling on the Epstein files, the Epstein case, the American people, simply put, have not been buying at all."

A procedural effort to force the House to vote on a measure to force the Justice Department to turn over files on Epstein's sex trafficking network advanced to its next stage, but even Republicans are deeply unsatisfied with Trump's refusal to authorize their release.

"Donald Trump has been trying to make some sort of case saying that, you know, the folks don't necessarily care about it, but take a look here," Enten said. "Approve of the Trump admin on the Epstein case in early July, right, when you had the DOJ droppings, right, it was 17 percent. Look at where we were by late September, the latest poll I can find, it's 20 percent. You know, we often talk about Donald Trump having this floor, right, about about 40 percent on this particular issue. He is less than half the level of the supposed floor. There's just nobody, there is just nobody in the electorate who is buying this. They do not like the way that the Trump administration has been handling this case one iota."

"This is overall, right, and you see 17 percent, you see 20 percent, that is way below the 40 percent floor that Donald Trump supposedly has," Enten added. "How does that possibly happen? It's because of Republicans, because look at this number, okay. Republicans who have approve of Trump's job as president, 87 percent. That is basically in line with the long term average, 85 [percent], 90 [percent], 95 percent. But look at the Trump admin's job on the Epstein case. Just 45 percent of Republicans, less than half of Republicans are even buying what the administration is selling."

Enten guessed that it's only a matter of time that the issue might bleed into Trump's overall approval rating.

"Look, we're not necessarily sure whether or not this case has moved the ball on Trump's overall approval rating yet, but I can tell you that the more that this case is in the news, the worse it is for Donald Trump, because, simply put, it is his worst issue by far," he said.

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