A cable TV polling expert claims that numbers from two surveys conducted two years apart show just how deeply President Donald Trump has disappointed America's voters when it comes to Iran.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Tuesday that a July 2024 poll of people who were extremely motivated to vote in that year’s presidential election found that 53 percent were confident Trump would be able to handle the situation in Iran, according to a video clip posted online.

But a July poll of people extremely motivated to vote in November's midterm elections shows that just 29 percent now approve of how Trump is actually handling Iran, Enten said.

"We're talking about a 24-point fall in just two years," he said. "What was an advantage for President Trump going into the 2024 election amongst those who really wanted to turn out and vote has turned into a tremendous disadvantage this time around."

Enten added: "Promises were made and promises were not kept. They were broken as far as those voters were concerned."

In a prepared statement, White House spokesperson David Ingle told The Independent, "What matters most to the American people is having a Commander-in-Chief who takes decisive action to eliminate threats and keep them safe, which is exactly what President Trump is doing."

"The President does not make these incredibly important national security decisions based on fluid opinion polls or political pundits, but on the best interests of the American people," he added.

It's been more than five months since Trump started his war against Iran on February 28, without congressional approval, leading to 18 U.S. military deaths and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, which increased global oil prices.

The newly-named secretary of Iran's National Security Council, Moshen Rezaei, vowed Tuesday that the strait would remain closed until the U.S. ends the war, releases frozen Iranian assets and stops all conflicts in the region, "including in Lebanon and Gaza," according to Reuters.

Rezaei announced the demands one day after Trump said that he wanted Iran to pay compensation for all of "the damage they've done over a 50-year period," and that he was considering letting Iran's economy collapse or hitting the country "really, really hard."

Polling on which political party is more trusted to deal with wars, conflicts and terrorism also spells trouble for Republicans, who were ahead of Democrats by 18 percentage points in January 2025, Enten said.

"That advantage, because of President Trump, has turned into a disadvantage on a core, key question that almost always favors Republicans. Now, Democrats have a two-point edge," he said.

Enten also said that "perhaps the most shocking thing" was the question of whether the U.S. would "ultimately reach a good deal with Iran."

"Just 27 percent of all voters believe that, and get this: just 41 percent of Republicans believe it," he said. "We are seeing below 50 percent across the board on this issue, and this is the reason I think, more than any other, that folks disagree with Trump on Iran because they, simply put, don't see what the point of it is. They don't see a way out of it."

As of Tuesday, the Real Clear Polling website gave Democrats an average edge of 7.1 percentage points over Republicans in a generic congressional contest, 48.6-41.5.