CNN data reporter Harry Enten expressed surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris' favorability rating rose to a net positive on Wednesday morning.

Harris currently leads former President Donald Trump by 2 percentage points in RealClearPolling. average The poll, conducted between September 3 and 15, Drop If the survey includes Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, Libertarian Party candidate Chase Oliver and independent candidate Cornel West, Harris' approval rating rises to 1.6%. Enten said Harris' approval rating has been significantly higher than President Joe Biden's in a series of polls he selected since she replaced Biden in July. (RELATED: MSNBC's Steve Kornacki argues that Harris offers “more paths for Democrats to win.”)

“I think this is a really dramatic move. When Harris entered the race and Joe Biden dropped out in mid-July, many months ago, just two months ago, her net favorability rating was minus 14 points,” Enten told CNN News Central host Sara Sydnor. “Look how just by entering the race, a month later it jumped to minus three points. And then this week, for the first time, her net favorability rating turned positive, which means more people view her favorably than unfavorably.”

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“If you would have asked me two months ago if I thought Kamala Harris would be a positive overall contributor to favorability in this race, I would have said, 'You're crazy.' But the truth is, you're not crazy, I just wasn't thinking creatively,” Enten continued. “The more Kamala Harris entered the race and voters saw her, the more favorable she became.”

Enten noted that Harris' net favorability rating was higher than both Biden and Trump's, but that Trump's net favorability rating was the highest in three presidential elections. (Related: 'A huge, quick increase': Kamala Harris is growing support among 'double-dealers,' according to CNN data experts)

“Look at Donald Trump's net favorability rating,” Enten told Sydnor, “it's higher at this point than it has been in the last two election cycles, but it's still low at minus nine points.”

Biden endorsed Harris shortly after announcing the end of his reelection effort on July 21. At the time Biden ended his reelection effort, he was trailing Trump by 3.1 percentage points in head-to-head national polls. According to RealClearPolling polling average shows Trump leading Enlarge If then-Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other third-party candidates are included, support rises to 4.2%.

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