Harry Enten

Enten was raised in a Jewish family in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City. Enten 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, majoring in government. Enten chose to attend Dartmouth 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 in 2013. He mostly wrote articles on politics for FiveThirtyEight, but also occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside Jody Avirgan, 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 The Forecast Fest podcast about the 2020 United States presidential election.