Support For Trump's Impeachment Is Higher Than His Approval Rating

[kpete]

SUPPORT FOR DONALD TRUMP'S IMPEACHMENT IS HIGHER THAN HIS APPROVAL RATING, POLL INDICATES


President Donald Trump is a mere 1 percentage point away from former commander in chief Richard Nixon when it comes to the number of Americans who want him impeached, according to a new poll released Friday.

A wide-ranging SRSS poll conducted for CNN touched on a number of topics, including Trump’s handling of the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election, and whether or not the president should testify before special counsel Robert Mueller.

But the question of impeachment stood out most, especially vis-à-vis the only president who ever resigned: Nixon.

Forty-two percent of those polled answered that Trump “should be impeached,” compared to 51 percent who answered they “don’t feel that way” and 7 percent who registered no opinion.

Five months before Nixon would eventually leave office in disgrace over the Watergate scandal, 43 percent of Americans thought he should be impeached, per a poll from March 1974, CNN reported.

The current poll also reflected a 39 percent approval rating for Trump, his lowest mark in the SRSS poll since February, when it was 35 percent. Results from March and May were far stronger, at 42 and 41 percent, respectively.

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http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-approval-rating-991900

[american_ideals]

1. K&R. Shout this to the hills

A majority of Americans detest his hateful policies and his corrupt criminality and want him out.

That’s the real story. Not his “approval” rating.

[heaven05]

4. true this nt.

[dalton99a]

2. The day of reckoning is coming

[duforsure]

3. Those that intentionally abuse children, and intentionally

Cause permanent damage to them life for political gain first should be removed from office, and those that enable this criminal behavior for this and continuing on, should all every one of them be shamed in public for the rest of their lives for allowing him no consequences, and for letting this take place. And trump is still lying about it, and blaming others for HIS policy, and policies against children. If they don't, and won't do anything the rage will grow for them all to be removed from office. No one that represents this should ever be allowed to remain our government . Or we're just like him.

[Geechie]

5. It's the 39 percent

I worry about. That means about 4 out of every 10 people I see in town think Trump is doing just fine. I’d say it makes me want to stay home, but that’s probably exactly what they want.

[yallerdawg]

7. You do understand the only way 39% wins anything is if...

a good chunk of the other 61% "stay home?"

[karynnj]

10. It was more subtle in 2016

The 30 to 39% of the country is concentrated in the Republican party and independednts who are to the right of the Republican party. This was far more than half of the republican primary voters. Then, once the nominees of both parties were set, tribalism led those who consider themselves Republican to "hold their noses" and vote their party. As we noted on the other side, there is a constrained choice and we must vote and vote for our party.

There was an obvious difference. Hillary Clinton was well within the mainstream of our party and was a person of good character - neither was true of Trump. There were an unprecedented number of top Republicans, including former Republican Presidents who publicly stated they were not going to vote for Trump. Some "never Trumpers" back pedaled and changed their stance before the election, but many prominent ones never did. However, enough Republicans gambled that he would not do anything that bad, that advisers with government experience would moderate his campaign positions ... and they would get the not just the Supreme Court, but most of the lower courts leaning in their favor for decades. Many things have been said to be a bargain with the devil -- this really was.

One question is whether the Republicans and the independents NOT included in that 39% will look at everything that has happened and conclude two things. 1) The Democrats need to win big in 2018 to make checks and balances work again. 2) That they can not vote to re-elect Trump in 2020.

One factor in all this might be whether the echo chamber that is right wing media can keep the truth from being heard. It is interesting that it has been the children who have had the most success in breaching that wall - whether the kids in this crisis, the DACA kids or the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school kids.

[Geechie]

16. Of course. I wouldn't dream of staying home on voting day ...

I was talking about just knowing that they're out there walking around, and how it makes me feel about my culture in general. Agoraphobia might be more to the point!

[karynnj]

8. The country is geographically polarized - so whether that is true depends on where you live

If you are in a large city, it is more likely that far fewer than 4 out of ten support Trump. If you live in a very red, non urban area then - sadly - it will be more than 4 out of 10.

I live in Burlington, VT, my entire Congressional delegation is fighting Trump on this and almost everything else. The town, the faith community and NGOs are all putting out the information on the June 30th event -- and an event on Monday at the State Capital. If I go downtown today, I am certain that I will see far fewer than 4 out of 10 supporting Trump.

[BobTheSubgenius]

6. Again. And again and again...

I wonder how his approval rating can possibly be that high. I'd have said it would be somewhere in the low 20s, at best.

[smirkymonkey]

9. I think there is a good percentage of those who say they approve do so only because he

is a republican, not because they particularly like him. If another viable republican candidate were to challenge him I have no doubt they would get behind them. I know a lot of people who voted for him only because he was the republican candidate, not because they liked him and many of them held their noses to do so. I honestly think his popularity is overestimated.

[davsand]

14. I think you are right to say his "Popularity" is overestimated.

It still terrifies me, however, when I consider the sheer number of people that live around me who actually DO think his racism, sexism, religious intolerance, and brutish behavior are acceptable. Even allowing for the ones who voted against Clinton or who voted only for the Republican nominee (I call them "Ham Sandwich Republicans) because they'd vote for a ham sandwich as long as it had an R next to it on the ballot...) that still allows for WAY TOO MANY people that I'd consider KKK or Nazi Party supporters and just haters in general.

I honestly think his election has unmasked a deeper--long denied--issue in this country that is rapidly coming to a full boil. I know I probably sound melodramatic, but I don't honestly know if it's gonna be possible to ever reign that mess back in now that they have become so bold. Even in its "glory days" the KKK wore masks and hoods to conceal their identities because they knew it was "wrong" or illegal. Now, I think they feel like it's OK and completely acceptable because one of their own sits in the Whitehouse.


Laura

[smirkymonkey]

15. They are loud and obnoxious, but I still believe that they are a minority

of the population. Maybe it's because I live in a very blue area of the country and I don't see it as much, but I really hope that they are not as prevalent as they seem to be.

[not fooled]

11. Good

Will be interesting to see what the next gallup "poll" says are dear leader's approval ratings, which had been inexplicably creeping up in gallup #s. Of course, I think the last result they released--showing something difficult to swallow like 45% approval, was before the baby jailing began to hit the news big time.

[UTUSN]

12. K&R

[Jamaal510]

13. I take nothing

for granted with the amount of misinformation out there and how many gullible Americans there are, but this administration sure seems to be trying its hardest to stir up Democratic turnout in November and repel any remaining sane-ish Republicans. Each day, everyone within this administration probably wakes up wondering what group of people they can screw and/or piss off next, and how to help lower the credibility of the press and the FBI.