Harry Enten

Harry Joe Enten (born March 1, 1988) is an American journalist known for his former role as a senior political writer and analyst for the website FiveThirtyEight and his current job as a senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics.

He was described by the Columbia Journalism Review as being of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.

Enten was raised in a Jewish family in the Riverdale neighborhood of The Bronx, New York City.

Harry was introduced to politics as a child when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to help pull the levers for elections.

He attended Riverdale Country School.

He is the nephew of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka, who married Enten's aunt.

Enten graduated magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 2011.

Enten chose to attend Dartmouth at least partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.

Enten began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News Political Unit in Washington, D.C. Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, Enten was a journalist for The Guardian.

Along with Carl Bialik and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people Nate Silver hired when FiveThirtyEight relaunched under ESPN.

He mostly wrote politics articles for FiveThirtyEight, but he occasionally wrote weather pieces.

Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside host Jody Avirgan and fellow co-hosts Nate Silver and Clare Malone.

He announced on February 5, 2018, that he was leaving FiveThirtyEight to join CNN's Politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.

From April 2019 to March 2020, Kate Bolduan, John Avlon, and Harry Enten produced a podcast called The Forecast Fest together.

It was about the 2020 United States presidential election.