'Criminals and fools': Majority of Americans -- including majority of Trump voters -- disapprove

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'Criminals and fools': Majority of Americans -- including majority of Trump voters -- disapprove of this week's events

January 09, 2021
Common Dreams

A majority of Americans want President Donald Trump removed from office after he played a leading role in inciting Wednesday's deadly right-wing mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll published Friday.

Fifty-seven percent of people who responded to the national opinion survey (pdf) said they favored the removal of the president. There was considerable variation depending on partisan affiliation, with 88% of Democrats but just 24% of Republicans favoring Trump's removal. Just over half of self-described independents favored Trump's ouster.

When it came to how the president should leave office, 30% wanted to see the 25th Amendment invoked, 14% favored impeachment, and 13% said Trump should resign. The remaining 43% said the president should finish his term, which ends on January 20.

Seventy percent of respondents who voted for Trump in November's election said they disapprove of the president's actions. However, one in eight people who took the survey said they supported the Capitol insurrection, with 5% calling the rioters "patriots." Most respondents (59%) said the insurrectionists were "criminals."

Fully 79% of all respondents—including two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters—described the Capitol mob as "criminals" or "fools."

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https://www.rawstory.com/remove-trump/

Reuters survey:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/mkt/oakpejbjqvr/Topline%20Reuters%20Capitol%20Unrest%20Overnight%20Survey%201%2008%202021.pdf