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Harry Enten
Enten in 2020
Born
Harry Joe Enten

(1988-03-01) March 1, 1988 (age 38)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationDartmouth College (BA)
OccupationJournalist
EmployerCNN
Known forChief Data Analyst for CNN
RelativesNeil Sedaka (uncle)

Harry Joe Enten (born March 1, 1988)[1][2] is an American journalist who is the Chief Data Analyst for CNN and host of CNN's Margins of Error podcast.[3] He was previously a senior political writer and analyst for the website FiveThirtyEight.[4] According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Enten is representative of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.[5]

Early life and education

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Enten was raised in a Jewish family[2][6][7][8] in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx, New York City.[5] Enten was introduced to politics at the age of 4 when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to vote in the 1992 presidential election, followed by the 1993 New York City mayoral election and 1996 presidential election.[9] He attended Riverdale Country School. He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who married Enten's aunt.[7]

Enten graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2011, majoring in Government, which covers Politics, Economics, and Law.[9] Enten chose to attend Dartmouth partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.[8][10]

Career

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Enten began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News' political unit in Washington, D.C.[8][5] Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, Enten was a journalist for The Guardian.[5][11]

FiveThirtyEight

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Along with Carl Bialik and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people Nate Silver hired when FiveThirtyEight relaunched under ESPN in 2013.[5][12] Prior to joining FiveThirtyEight, Enten wrote for The Guardian.[13] He mostly wrote articles on politics for FiveThirtyEight, but also occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside Jody Avirgan, Nate Silver, and Clare Malone.[14] He announced on February 5, 2018, that he was leaving FiveThirtyEight to join CNN's politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.[15][16]

CNN

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Enten joined CNN in February 2018 as a senior writer and analyst with a focus on polling, electoral trends and election forecasting. In 2019, CNN host Jake Tapper praised Enten following his arrival as "the kind of guy who makes us all smarter, focusing on things that most of us hadn’t even thought of."[17] He hosted the podcast The Forecast Fest on CNN with Kate Bolduan and John Avlon covering the 2020 presidential election and the Margins of Error podcast, where he focuses on data-driven journalism.[18] Enten was promoted to CNN's Chief Data Analyst in February 2025.[19]

While presenting polling data on CNN, Enten has become recognized for his energetic presentation style and use of phrases such as "Holy Toledo!" or "Johnny B" to refer to co-host John Berman.[20][21][22] In April 2025, Republican pollster Frank Luntz accused Enten on-air of being too theatrical in his presentation of polling on CNN.[23] President Donald Trump frequently cites Enten's segments with positive poll numbers at rallies and in his Truth Social posts.[24] While calling into CNBC's Squawk Box in August 2025, Trump referred to Enten as "Harry Emden" when pointing to a CNN segment as confirming his apparent high job approval numbers.[25][26] Enten went on to explain on Laura Coates Live that he did not "expect that there would be that type of infatuation from the president of the United States". In October 2026, Trump played clips of Enten on CNN at his rallies where Enten was presenting polling that so-called "MAGA Republicans" held a positive view of Trump with rallygoers cheering at the clips.[27] Enten said that Trump was playing those clips "because he believes it shows him to be popular" despite the polling only representing a portion of the electorate.[27]

Personal life

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Enten is a lifelong Buffalo Bills fan.[28]

References

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  1. ↑ Enten, Harry. "Harry Enten - Twitter Profile". Twitter. Retrieved August 26, 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Everything You Need To Know About Fivethirtyeight's Harry Enten". BuzzFeed. January 30, 2017. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Harry Enten - Senior Writer and Analyst, CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Harry Enten". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on March 18, 2014. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Vernon, Pete (October 5, 2016). "FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid' Harry Enten represents the new generation of political journalist". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  6. ↑ Enten, Harry J. (September 26, 2012). "Why I'm not on Twitter for Yom Kippur". The Guardian.
  7. 1 2 "Unorthodox Live With FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten and 'How to Be a Muslim' Author Haroon Moghul". Tablet Magazine. October 19, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2018. Our Jew of the week is Harry Enten, senior political writer and analyst for FiveThirtyEight and a regular on the FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast
  8. 1 2 3 Platt, Bill (October 19, 2016). "How Harry Enten '11 Became FiveThirtyEight's 'Whiz Kid'". Dartmouth News. Retrieved April 25, 2018.
  9. 1 2 Goyal, Rohit (August 10, 2015). "An Interview with Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight's Senior Political Analyst". The Politic. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  10. ↑ Colomer, Josep M., ed. (2013). Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems. ECPR Press. ISBN 9781907301575.
  11. ↑ Enten, Harry Joe. "Margin of Error". Blogspot. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. I am a graduate of Hanover, NH. I graduated with a degree in government summa cum laude with a concentration in statistics and elections. I have previously interned at the NBC Political Unit in Washington D.C. (Spring 2009) & Pollster.com (spring and summer 2010).
  12. ↑ Bhuiyan, Johana (November 13, 2013). "Guardian writer and number-cruncher Harry Enten goes to work for Nate Silver". Politico. Archived from the original on June 2, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  13. ↑ Ball, James (March 18, 2014). "Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight is here: may the odds be ever in its favour". The Guardian. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  14. ↑ "Politics Podcast". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original on November 24, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
  15. ↑ "Has Trump Remade The GOP?". FiveThirtyEight Politics Podcast (Podcast). FiveThirtyEight. February 5, 2018. Event occurs at 3:12. Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  16. ↑ Silver, Stephen (July 26, 2020). "CNN election forecaster Harry Enten speaks about his Jewishness". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved April 27, 2023.
  17. ↑ Bernstein, Mark F. (November–December 2019). "There's Something About Harry". Dartmouth Alumni Magazine. Retrieved November 1, 2026.
  18. ↑ "The Forecast Fest with Harry Enten, Kate Bolduan and John Avlon". CNN. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  19. ↑ "CNN's Harry Enten Promoted to Chief Data Analyst". CNN Newsroom. Retrieved October 5, 2026.
  20. ↑ Frevele, Jamie (November 8, 2024). "'Holy Toledo!' CNN's Harry Enten Busts Out Grandpa's Favorite Exclamations to Describe Trump's Gains Among Swaths of Voters". Mediaite. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  21. ↑ Vera, Kelby (October 13, 2026). "'You Can't Buy Love!' CNN's Data Ace Hints At How Elon Musk's GOP Spending Spree Could Backfire". HuffPost. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  22. ↑ Margaritoff, Marco (October 20, 2026). "Harry Enten Skewers Vance Over Latest Gas Price Excuse: 'Nobody's Buying That'". HuffPost. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  23. ↑ Ladden-Hall, Dan (April 30, 2025). "Veteran GOP Pollster Insults CNN's Data Guru on Air: 'You're Not on Broadway!'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 1, 2026.
  24. ↑ "'Everybody Loves Harry!' CNN Data Master Revels in His Unlikely Role as Trump's Favorite Analyst". Yahoo! News. October 28, 2026. Retrieved November 1, 2026.
  25. ↑ "CNN's chief data analyst reacts to Trump flubbing his name as 'Harry Emden' while reacting to performance poll". CNN. August 6, 2025. Retrieved November 1, 2026.
  26. ↑ Silvers, Jack (August 6, 2025). "CNN Data Guru Responds Hilariously to Trump Butchering His Name". The Daily Beast. Retrieved November 1, 2026.
  27. 1 2 Stelter, Brian (October 30, 2026). "Why Trump's favorite CNN video of Harry Enten is 'not the full story'". CNN. Retrieved November 2, 2026.
  28. ↑ Wolf Blitzer and Harry Enten Reflect on Their Lifelong Love of the Buffalo Bills. CNN. Retrieved October 26, 2026.
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