CNN data reporter Harry Enten appeared surprised Wednesday by Vice President Kamala Harris’s rise in popularity since she entered the race. Before President Biden withdrew, she was historically unpopular as vice president.

“I just think this is such a dramatic move, my goodness, graceful,” Enten said, noting that Harris had a net favorability rating of -14 points when she entered the race. “Just by entering the race, look where she jumped to a month later, -3. And this week, for the first time, she got a positive net favorability rating. That means more people rated her positively than negatively.”

According to Enten, Harris has a +1 popularity rating as of September 18, compared to former President Trump, who has a -9 popularity rating. Biden currently has a -14 rating, according to CNN’s data reporter.

“If you had asked me two months ago if I thought Kamala Harris would ever, in aggregate, have a positive net favorability rating during this campaign, I would have said you were crazy,” Enten said. “But the fact is you weren’t crazy, I just wasn’t thinking creatively,” he added.

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CNN’s Harry Enten seemed surprised on Wednesday by the popularity of Vice President Kamala Harris. (Screenshot/CNN)

“I think Harris’ initial net favorability rating was somewhat in line with Biden’s, right, because she was vice president. But as she went on the campaign trail and became her own candidate, she’s been able to show this net positive favorability rating, and she’s the only one of the three that’s in positive territory,” Enten added.

Enten also noted that Harris polled better against Trump than any other Democratic candidate.

“Right now, we see Kamala Harris up three points in the national polls. So she’s actually doing a little bit better, but still better than the general Democrats in the House of Representatives. So that to me is an idea that now that she’s on the campaign trail, she’s not only met the general benchmark, but she’s actually doing a little bit better than the general benchmark, which kind of fits into this whole narrative that Kamala Harris and her campaign maybe knows what they’re doing despite the fact that people don’t like the economy,” Enten said.

Enten added that it was the economy that kept the race exciting.

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Democratic presidential candidate and Vice President Kamala Harris is interviewed by Tonya Mosley and Gerren Keith Gaynor, members of the National Association of Black Journalists, with moderator Eugene Daniels, in the WHYY studio in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. ( (AP Photo/Matt Rourke))

Enten warned Monday that Harris was in the “danger zone” based on her chances of winning the Electoral College.

“Harris’ chances if she wins the popular vote by two to three points, that the chance of her winning the electoral college is only 53 percent. The bottom line is you have to go all the way north to about three to four points to give Harris a clear, clear, clear chance, the majority, the clear majority chance of winning the electoral college. If she wins by less than two points, look at that, only a 23 percent chance of winning,” he noted.

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“Right now, Harris is in the danger zone where, given her national majority of the popular vote, she would win about half the time,” Enten added.