Poll: Support for Trump impeachment rises

[riversedge]

Source: Politico








05/31/2017 06:18 AM EDT


An increasing percentage of voters want Congress to impeach President Donald Trump — even if they don't think Trump has committed the “high crimes and misdemeanors” the Constitution requires.

Forty-three percent of voters want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, up from 38 percent last week.

"If President Trump was hoping his foreign trip would shift the conversation away from scandals, he may be out of luck," said Morning Consult Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Kyle Dropp. "Over the last week, support for beginning impeachment proceedings among voters rose from 38 percent to 43 percent."


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Of those who want Congress to move toward impeachment, a 54-percent majority of those believe Trump “has proven he is unfit to serve and should be removed from office, regardless of whether he committed an impeachable offense or not.” Only 43 percent of those seeking impeachment believe Trump has committed an offense that meets the high constitutional standards for removal.


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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/trump-impeach-polling-238947

[gordianot]

1. To Trump with regards.

Actually many reasons.

[yuiyoshida]

2. I fucking hope so!

K&R, Tweeted and Two turtle doves, and a Partridge in a Pear Tree!

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. Most people don't understand impeachment is a political, not criminal, process

"High crimes & misdemeanors" does not require a specific statutory law be violated, as The legislative branch has no enforcement or prosecutorial power.

Apparently the pollsters don't understand this distinction either. Congress can draft articles of impeachment for whatever they have the political will to pursue.

[PearliePoo2]

4. I find this % of Americans favoring impeachment actually surprising.

Considering how radical and serious impeachment is and how difficult it is for a Nation to go through (totally consuming and so partisan that nothing else gets done) that 43% say "Bring it on", is astounding.
These numbers are really encouraging to me and give me hope. And the fact that the % rose from 38% to 43% in ONE WEEK is dramatic.

[Le Gaucher]

5. Impeachment of president is TOTALLY insufficient .

The whole gang and their enablers in congress must go

[ffr]

6. Baby steps. Often something is better than nothing.

Trying to impeach the entire KGOP all at once might present more of a problem. Taking them down one at a time for their lies, treason, and corruption should prove easier.

[Honeycombe8]

7. Really. That surprises me. If I were Trump, I'd pack my bags & be prepared.

But he wasn't a Boy Scout, was he?

[HopeAgain]

8. Impeachment will only happen if 51% of voters in a majority of republican districts want it...

It really is that simple which means that without an indictment, it won't happen.

[Duppers]

9. Exactly! nt

[Duppers]

10. Only *43%*

Don't people read any news of record or listen to any MSM? They have time for bubblegum music and sports. They have car radios but we need more progressive stations and need PBS to broadcast news 24/7.

[riversedge]

11. Slowly but surely. (I hope)

Link to tweet

[winstars]

12. Someone once said: He is temperamentally unfit to be President of the United States...

Who was that?

Wasn't it some lady who used to be on TeeVee last year; I don't see her so much anymore.

Did her show get cancelled?



Our world has become a fucking TeeVee show and I can't seem to change the channel...

Not funny.

[David__77]

13. This shows political polarization, not necessarily realignment.

That said, realignment isn't needed to win; mobilization of the opposition is.