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FOX NEWS POLL: 54 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY TRUMP SHOULD BE IMPEACHED

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  5 years ago  •  78 comments

FOX NEWS POLL: 54 PERCENT OF AMERICANS SAY TRUMP SHOULD BE IMPEACHED
Just fewer than half of Americans surveyed, 48 percent, said they believe Trump obstructed Congress, while only 34 percent said they did not. And 45 percent of respondents said they believe Trump committed bribery. But more than half of Americans, 53 percent, said Trump abused the power of the Oval Office.

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Fox News poll released Sunday morning found a majority of Americans, 54 percent, said President Donald Trump should be impeached, a vote the House is likely to pass this coming week.

The latest Fox News   poll conducted   last week found a majority of U.S. adults of all political affiliations say Trump abused his power in office, with 50 percent of Americans saying he should be impeached and removed as president. An additional 4 percent say he should be impeached but not removed from office. Those surveyed rejected the claim touted by Trump and Republicans that U.S. presidents typically ask foreign governments for help in investigating political rivals, with only 22 percent of respondents saying that defense checks out. A similar majority, 52 percent, said the Trump administration has not cooperated enough with the House impeachment inquiry.

The slight upward tick in those supporting impeachment comes as a result of a new high in independent voters, 45 percent, who favor impeachment, up from 38 percent in October.

About 16 percent more voters said Republican lawmakers just want to protect Trump politically instead of reviewing the accusations which led to the two articles of impeachment against him -- abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

Just fewer than half of Americans surveyed, 48 percent, said they believe Trump obstructed Congress, while only 34 percent said they did not. And 45 percent of respondents said they believe Trump committed bribery. But more than half of Americans, 53 percent, said Trump abused the power of the Oval Office.


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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

If you listen to the jackassery on right wing social media and conservative internet forums its all over but the shouting, Trump is "winning" the impeachment fight. 

Really? 

Now we know the Republican cowards in the Senate are going to let him walk, but that does not appear to be what a large portion of the American people want. 

In almost every way of looking at it in this new Fox News poll, the results are bad for Trump. Pluralities think he's guilty of bribery and obstruction of justice, and a majority wants him impeached , with a plurality of 50% saying he should be removed from office. 

Now Trumpsters will make excuses for the umpteenth time. 

Let the bamboozling begin !

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2  seeder  JohnRussell    5 years ago

41% say he should not be impeached. 

Funny how that so closely matches the numbers in his base. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1  Texan1211  replied to  JohnRussell @2    5 years ago
41% say he should not be impeached. 

Doesn't matter. It is strictly a Democrat decision to make. Do Democrats risk political backlash when the goal of removing Trump is not met? Or do they decide to bank on the numbers in that poll and just try to beat Trump in less than a year?

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1    5 years ago

Once the evidence of Trump's guilt in the Ukrainian thing became obvious, and it is, the Democrats had no choice.  If they didnt impeach him they would be derelict in their duty of oversight of the executive.

In all seriousness, I dont think anyone really knows what the impeachment will mean politically, as far as voters go. It may cause many people to realize we have a crook and cheat running the country, and they will throw the bum out in November.  It would be no surprise. 

 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1.2  Texan1211  replied to  JohnRussell @2.1.1    5 years ago
In all seriousness, I dont think anyone really knows what the impeachment will mean politically, as far as voters go. It may cause many people to realize we have a crook and cheat running the country, and they will throw the bum out in November.  It would be no surprise. 

I always love it when people who underestimated Trump before continue to do so.

This close to an election, some will wonder why did the Democrats waste so much time and energy when they have assured everyone that there is no way Trump can win---again.

How Don Quixote-like of them.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
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2.1.3  Ozzwald  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1.2    5 years ago
I always love it when people who underestimated Trump before continue to do so.

It is impossible to UNDER estimate Trump.  He has shown time and again that he has the mentality of Wile E Coyote.  He "thinks" he is so smart, but his actions show the intelligence of a rather simple 3 year old. 

Dunning–Kruger effect

Trump has survived thus far for only one reason, the Republican's willingness to sell their souls for power, and the almighty $.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.1.4  Texan1211  replied to  Ozzwald @2.1.3    5 years ago

Democrats thought Abuela was a lock, No one gave Trump a chance--after all, he had no path to 270--if you remember correctly.

And some of the same folks keep underestimating him.

Your denial of the obvious notwithstanding.

 
 
 
bugsy
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2.1.6  bugsy  replied to  XDm9mm @2.1.5    5 years ago
I doubt you're anywhere near earning the interest on his wealth, much less the wealth itself.

And that truly pisses the left off. That's why they are trying to take it away from him. They hate that he has it, and they don't.

 
 
 
Jack_TX
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2.1.7  Jack_TX  replied to  Ozzwald @2.1.3    5 years ago
It is impossible to UNDER estimate Trump.

One would think that to be the case.

But then one would be underestimating the hubris of entitled white liberals, which seems to be limitless.

 
 
 
Ozzwald
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2.1.8  Ozzwald  replied to  Texan1211 @2.1.4    5 years ago
Democrats thought Abuela was a lock, No one gave Trump a chance--after all, he had no path to 270--if you remember correctly.

Lost the argument and now trying to change the subject?  

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Texan1211
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2.1.10  Texan1211  replied to  Ozzwald @2.1.8    5 years ago

I am not sure which is cuter--you thinking you won something, or you thinking I changed the subject because you can't make the connection.

Oh, hell....they are BOTH cute!

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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2.2  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  JohnRussell @2    5 years ago
Funny how that so closely matches the numbers in his base.

That's because it is his base. They are not objective. They cannot weigh whether the President is or isn't abusing his office, they are set in stone partisans. They constantly whine about other people being biased against them but they are biased against anything but themselves and will do whatever it takes to be in power. Abandoning their oversight responsibility was an easy choice for such slimy sycophants. It's no wonder they believe any civil servant who might be registered as a Democrat simply can't be trusted, because they know THEY wouldn't be trustworthy if they were in that office and would always rule in favor of their party. They are projecting their extreme partisanship onto faithful hard working civil servants and frankly it's disgusting and evidence we need to get these Trump brown nosing Republican legislators out of office as soon as possible. No wonder nearly two dozen Republican legislators already announced they would be retiring next year. They know they can't win without sucking down dirty Donald's tainted cool-aid and they are unwilling to bend the knee to the naked Emperor and tell him how beautiful his imaginary clothes are no matter how many of their rabid constituents do. If only there were more Republican legislators with that kind of integrity. The Republican party of today looks nothing like the party of just 20 years ago.

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” - Barry Goldwater

 
 
 
Ronin2
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2.2.1  Ronin2  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.2    5 years ago

Like the Democratic base is objective? They have been screaming for Trump's impeachment since before he took office- along with the Democrats and media.

You act like the Democrats and their lemmings are unbiased.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.2.2  Tessylo  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.2    5 years ago

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.” - Barry Goldwater

The beginning of the end of the republicans. . . the so-called 'compassionate conservative'

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.2.3  Tessylo  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.2    5 years ago

Someone posted a seed about democrats leaving the party for the republicans 

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Tessylo
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2.2.5  Tessylo  replied to    5 years ago

PROVE IT!

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2.7  Texan1211  replied to  Tessylo @2.2.5    5 years ago

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Tessylo
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2.2.8  Tessylo  replied to  XDm9mm @2.2.6    5 years ago

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Texan1211
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2.2.9  Texan1211  replied to  Tessylo @2.2.8    5 years ago

Here are some other sources which might meet your stringent requirements:

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/15/jeff-van-drew-party-switch-085169

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019...

https://www.businessinsider.com/democrat-jeff-van...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/16...

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.2.10  Tessylo  replied to  Texan1211 @2.2.9    5 years ago

Those links probably don't say what you want us to think they say.  

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2.11  Texan1211  replied to  Tessylo @2.2.10    5 years ago

I suppose you'll never know unless you actually look at them and read them.

Or are you just attacking the sources--not the facts contained in the articles?

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2.12  Texan1211  replied to  Tessylo @2.2.10    5 years ago
Those links probably don't say what you want us to think they say.  

Probably? So now it is all just guessing on your part? Really?

I don't want you to THINK they say anything, I wanted you to read and understand them and come to your own conclusion based on the facts.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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2.2.13  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Ronin2 @2.2.1    5 years ago
You act like the Democrats and their lemmings are unbiased.

I'm not saying either side is "unbiased". I'm saying that even those with a political bias can still follow the law and be objective when it comes to saying whether something is an abuse of power or not. I think almost every civil servant working for the United States is registered to one party ort another. If we imagine every civil servant who happens to lean pone way or another politically to be some deep state cog willing to abandon their sense of right and wrong and their oath of office just because its politically beneficial to our party, then the American experiment is already over. If we are to such polar opposites that neither side can trust the others general adherence to the law and constitution, then Putin has already won and the 250 year experiment in western democracy has already come to a close which would be a very sad day indeed only cheered by those who support Putin and his loyal wannabe oligarch dishonest Donald.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.2.15  Tessylo  replied to  Texan1211 @2.2.12    5 years ago

So ONE person switches from democratic to the gop and that is the democrats leaving the party in droves?

Only your first link worked.  The other were errors, page not found.  What a surprise!

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.2.16  Tessylo  replied to  XDm9mm @2.2.6    5 years ago

I said democrat(s) not 1 democrat.  

 
 
 
Jack_TX
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2.2.17  Jack_TX  replied to  Dismayed Patriot @2.2    5 years ago
That's because it is his base. They are not objective. They cannot weigh whether the President is or isn't abusing his office, they are set in stone partisans.

Are you talking about Trump supporters or haters?

They constantly whine about other people being biased against them but they are biased against anything but themselves and will do whatever it takes to be in power.

Again....this describes both sets of partisans.

The only thing you've omitted is the inability of each set to see the behaviors they abhor going on in their own camp.

 
 
 
Dismayed Patriot
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2.2.18  Dismayed Patriot  replied to  Jack_TX @2.2.17    5 years ago
The only thing you've omitted is the inability of each set to see the behaviors they abhor going on in their own camp.

I watched Democrats circle the wagons for Bill Clinton, and I didn't vote for him in '92 or '96. I thought their partisanship was a disgusting display. I feel the same about Republicans. I also don't think just because someone else does something wrong then you should do it too. One parties bad actions should never justify the other parties use of the same. If they do, then they both prove themselves completely void of any actual standards, morals or ethics. When a terrorist is caught trying to rig an IED to kill and maim US soldiers, do we let them off the hook because their kid brother was blown up by a US airstrike? Of course not, because their claim that someone else did it to them first isn't a valid excuse to pay that violence forward. Now, some here in America likely agree that that terrorists actions aren't justified, but if their own kid brother was killed in a terrorist attack here on US soil they'd likely think they had an absolute right, a duty even, to go kill as many of those terrorists with any means necessary, IED's included. It's pretty much what we did after 9/11.

My point is that yes, both parties have done some despicable things, and members of each party have done some really vile things like the longest serving Republican leader of the House Denny Hastert raping kids and paying millions to keep them quiet. But that doesn't mean we can now excuse a Democrat for doing the same, or give a free pass to one for a future kid raping, right? That's not how this works, right? So just because some Republicans feel Democrats did something nefarious, does that justify giving dishonest Donald carte blanche to do whatever he wants regardless of how he abuses his power for his own personal political gain? Have we gone down that road so far now there is no going back to a time where political scandal was a fairly rare thing that would pop up every few months or even years and not every few minutes? If we've already crossed the Rubicon, what hope is there for the Republic?

As the old story goes, Benjamin Franklin was approached and asked what sort of government the delegates had just created. His answer, "A republic, if you can keep it.". I think the mindless partisanship we see today is evidence that we are losing our Republic. Franklin once said "when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men, all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views."

He appeared to think it impossible to expect a "perfection" from such a gathering as they had, but he believed that the Constitution they had just written, "with all its faults," was better than any alternative that was likely to emerge. I personally believe our current system isn't perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than the alternative on either side, left or right. If both sides are just determined to out-high crime the other (high crimes being an abuse of power, not an actual criminal statute as some morons would have you believe) then we are doomed and have just two choices before us, the right wing fascism Trump and his base foam at the mouth for or the cobbled together capitalist/socialist Republic we have created out of our founders constitutional foundation.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2.19  Texan1211  replied to  Tessylo @2.2.15    5 years ago
So ONE person switches from democratic to the gop and that is the democrats leaving the party in droves?

Okay, slow your roll. I didn't make any claims about how many switched.

But only 3 Dixiecrat politicians became Republican, and Democrats have been saying for years that they ALL switched.

Only your first link worked.  The other were errors, page not found.  What a surprise!

Okay, here is what you can do when that happens.

 Look it up YOURSELF.

The only surprising thing is that you actually looked at the links and haven't thus far whined about the sources,

 
 
 
Dulay
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2.2.20  Dulay  replied to  XDm9mm @2.2.6    5 years ago

You know that many is more than one right? 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2.22  Texan1211  replied to  XDm9mm @2.2.21    5 years ago

Perhaps only one in your discussion?

LOL!

 
 
 
Dulay
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2.2.23  Dulay  replied to  XDm9mm @2.2.21    5 years ago
Run along.

I'm not the one that runs away from addressing questions.  

Adults are in discussions.

Judging from your comments, you're not one of them. 

 
 
 
freepress
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3  freepress    5 years ago

The crazy thing is Fox is always skewed, so if the truth was actually told, then I think the percentage for impeachment and impeachment/removal is much higher that the Fox poll. Anyone with an ounce of decency and common sense knows that the Republican experiment of allowing Trump free rein was a mistake. Now Republicans desperately cling to him in order to protect themselves from admitting that mistake. They could control the "Tea Party" experiment and shut it down. Now they have crossed the Rubicon into allowing cronyism, nepotism, and corruption that has become openly flaunted in the face of the law. Not a shred of decency left.

 
 
 
bugsy
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3.2  bugsy  replied to  freepress @3    5 years ago

Actually that is true, but towards democrats.

Yesterday, Kevin Cork did a report on this poll and at the end of his report, he let the cat out of the bag. He said the poll over sampled democrats. I tried to look at the methodology, but the only thing it stated was the percentage of error.

The opinion to impeach is probably more towards the liberal base, mid 40s at most.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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5  Tessylo    5 years ago

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Paula Bartholomew
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5.2  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  Tessylo @5    5 years ago

Perfect choice as she was involved with a known pedophile.

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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5.2.1  KDMichigan  replied to  Paula Bartholomew @5.2    5 years ago
Perfect choice as she was involved with a known pedophile.

In her defense I think she at least lost her 3 chins.

 
 
 
bugsy
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5.3  bugsy  replied to  Tessylo @5    5 years ago

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Texan1211
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5.3.1  Texan1211  replied to  bugsy @5.3    5 years ago

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bugsy
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5.3.2  bugsy  replied to  bugsy @5.3    5 years ago

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Sean Treacy
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6  Sean Treacy    5 years ago

Qunnipac has Trump at his highest approval ever

Suffolk has him beating every single potential  Democratic nominee for the first time ever

The most partisan impeachment in history doing its part to ensure Trump's reelection.

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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6.1  Sean Treacy  replied to  Sean Treacy @6    5 years ago

CNN just released a poll showing support for impeachment has dropped 9%, to 45%, since October.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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6.1.1  Texan1211  replied to  Sean Treacy @6.1    5 years ago

CNN??? 

Really?

My God, the heads must be spinning at CNN headquarters to actually report something not 100% negative about Trump!

I believe that most Americans can recognize the sham of impeachment that the Democrats are pulling.

And wondering why the articles of impeachment are strangely devoid of most of the crap that Democrats have talked about for almost 4 years, like collusion. And quid pro quo. And the Emoluments Clause.

And wondering why not just beat him at the polls next November like they have told everyone they can do so easily.

 
 
 
KDMichigan
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7  KDMichigan    5 years ago
CNN)A new CNN Poll of Polls finds opposition narrowly outpacing support for impeaching and removing President Donald Trump from office -- 46% believe Trump should be impeached and removed from office, 49% don't. 

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