CNN’s chief data analyst said on Monday that the numbers don’t lie: the Democrat and media driven pressure campaign to use the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s case as a weapon against President Donald Trump is falling flat.

Harry Enten broke down the polling during a segment with anchor Kate Bolduan, telling her that persistent efforts to tie Trump to his administration’s handling of case had failed to do any real damage. “This is, from at least a political point of view, quickly turning into a dud of a story,” he said.

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The Epstein saga is becoming a political dud & nothingburger.

-Google searches for Epstein are down 89% from just 3 weeks ago.
-Trump’s approval rating is holding steady & much higher than term 1 at this point in his presidency
-Less than 1% say it’s the nation’s top issue pic.twitter.com/rnp2M8qzdf

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) August 11, 2025

“Take a look here, Google searches for Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago, falling through the floor! It is no longer the top term searched alongside Donald Trump’s name,” Enten explained. “That’s been trading off between tariffs and Vladimir Putin with obviously the meeting coming up later this week. But at this particular point, the American people’s interest in this story, it’s quickly becoming something of a nothingburger.”

Bolduan pressed him on overall polling, asking whether there was any indication that support for Trump was waning in reaction to his administration’s handling of the case and the related files that have not yet been released.

“No, not really,” Enten replied. “I mean, take a look here. Let’s take a look at the overall numbers. Trump’s approval rating in July of 2025, it was 45%. It’s still well within that margin of error here at 44%. And you compare that to where he was in his first term at this point, he was at 37%. So he’s seven points higher, very much in a different political universe now, significantly higher in terms of his overall approval rating than he was at this point in his first term.”

“And more than that, among Republicans, his approval rating is near a record high, hovering right at about that 90% mark,” Enten added. “So no, he hasn’t lost any of that base. And when it comes to that center of the electorate, he’s basically holding on there. And his overall approval rating, 44%, is pretty gosh darn good for him, considering where he was at this point in term number one.”

Former Vice President Kamala Harris “rebuffed” a request from the Vance family to allow their children a tour of the vice president’s residence ahead of the inauguration, according to Vice President JD Vance.

Vance revealed the apparent snub during an appearance on the inaugural episode of the Katie Miller Podcast that aired on Monday. Harris, branded as “Momala” during the presidential campaign, reportedly denied the Vance children an early chance to see the house they would live in for the next four years.

“I think that, normally, it’s customary for the outgoing vice president to show the incoming vice president’s family the house,” Vance said. “We have three little kids, so I guess at the time our kids were, like, 7, 5, and, you know, 2 – I guess Mirabel turned 3 right before the inauguration.”

“Usha really wanted to show [the children where they would be living], so what we actually proposed is, recognizing the weirdness of the politics, can Usha take the kids over and just show them where they’re going to be living for the next 4 years, and they were rebuffed,” Vance said.

Instead, Vance and his wife introduced their children to the vice presidential residence through photos.

“A friend of ours in Cincinnati had a book about the vice president’s residence, and so we would show the kids what it would look like, but that’s as close as they ever got to it” before the inauguration, Vance said.

.@VP says after the election, since it’s usually “customary for the outgoing VP to show the incoming VP’s family the house,” he proposed bringing their kids over so they could see their home for the next four years — but Kamala “rebuffed” that request. pic.twitter.com/YC58At8Iqf

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 11, 2025

Harris snubbed the vice president, as well. Traditionally, the sitting vice president has invited the incoming vice president to the residence ahead of inauguration, though Harris skipped the custom with Vance.

Harris has often brought up her role as “Momala” to her stepchildren, Cole and Ella, gained through her marriage to her husband Doug Emhoff. The nickname was agreed upon one night by Harris and Ella a couple years after Harris and Emhoff were married.

Harris wrote about the experience in a Mother’s Day piece in Elle in 2019. The nickname has been referenced repeatedly in news articles and profiles to tout Harris’ family’s support for her career in politics.