CNN’s Harry Enten explained why President Trump still has influence in Republican primaries. Enten points to Trump’s support among Republicans and contrasted that support with Barack Obama and George W. Bush:

JOHN BERMAN: Donald Trump almost never loses when he endorses in a primary because, why? HARRY ENTEN: Why? Because Republicans love Donald Trump more than any president’s own party supporters loved him at this particular point. Just take a look here. OK, own party supporters. Twenty-first century presidents own party approval about it at this point in a second term. Bush was at 77 percent. Obama was at 77 percent. Look at this, 86 percent of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party at this point. Trump’s magic touch has not seemed to wore off yet when it comes to the Republican base. BERMAN: And what kind of approval are we talking about here? ENTEN: OK, so we’re talking about overall approval here. How about the strongly approved? The strongly approved. Not just like, but love. Love. OK, we’re going to look at these same presidents. Again, strong approval among your own party’s base. What you see here is Trump is the only one who gets a majority at this point in their presidency. Obama was at 48 percent. Bush was at 47 percent. You see her, Trump at 53 percent. Not as high as his overall approval rating, but still getting a majority of the Republican base, at least in the average of polls, to say that they still really, really, really like him.

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