‘Blue wave’ expected for midterms looks more like a tiny ripple, says CNN’s Harry Enten

While Democrats are hoping for a “blue wave” to hit Election Day and hand over control of Congress, CNN’s political analyst is tossing cold water on those expectations.

Harry Enten showed how the polling ahead of the election shows Democrats are not performing as well as they were in previous midterm elections against a Republican president.

‘It is no guarantee; it is far from a guarantee at this point if you believe these pollsters.’

Democrats are up by five percentage points in generic congressional polling from NBC News, but at the same point of the 2006 midterms, Democrats were ahead by 11 points in polling, and in 2018, they were ahead 10 points.

“And now the Democratic lead is on a single hand,” Enten said.

“Democrats are ahead,