Democrats’ satisfaction in being American has “fallen by way of the ground,” CNN’s chief information analyst Harry Enten has famous.
Enten pointed to new survey information from Gallup which confirmed that simply 36% of Democrats are actually “extraordinarily” or “very” proud to be American. It’s down from 80% in 2015, when former President Barack Obama was in workplace, he stated.
“That quantity has plummeted, plummeted to simply 36% now in 2025, a low this century. It’s fallen by greater than half since 2015, as Donald Trump has develop into, after all, president as soon as once more this 12 months,” stated Enten.
The analyst pinpointed Gen Z voters, born since 1997, as being key to the outcome. Some 32% have “little” or “no satisfaction” in being American, he stated.
“I simply by no means thought I’d see these numbers based mostly upon the place we had been a decade in the past. However that’s precisely the place we’re,” Enten stated.
Republicans, in the meantime, stated Enten, are nonetheless “extraordinarily” or “very” proud to be American. Their determine has risen, solely barely, from 90% in 2015 when Obama was in workplace to 92% now.
“Republicans nonetheless are extraordinarily or very proud to be an American,” Enten stated. “Democrats, however, have seen their numbers fall by way of the ground, led after all by the youngest technology, Technology Z.”