CNN Data Chief Reveals What Trump 'Actually Speaks To' With Alcatraz Plan
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Harry Enten said the president's proposal for the former prison reflects an issue that sees one of his "best" polling returns.
CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten on Tuesday argued that President Donald Trump’s proposal to reopen the notorious former federal prison at Alcatraz is tied to his favorable polling when it comes to tackling crime.
“Yes, I know it’s late-night fodder for a lot of different folks. But what it actually speaks to is Donald Trump focusing the American people’s attention on an issue in which they actually do like what he’s doing,” Enten told CNN’s Kate Bolduan.
Trump, in a post to his Truth Social platform Sunday, wrote that he was directing federal agencies to reopen a “substantially enlarged and rebuilt” Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”
Alcatraz — which symbolized inescapable and cruel conditions due to its maximum security and location — held noteworthy criminals in its 29-year run before shuttering in 1963 after it fell into disrepair.
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