Majority of Americans don't want Trump to be impeached, new poll finds

[Kilgore]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/majority-of-americans-dont-want-trump-to-be-impeached-new-poll-finds/?ftag=CNM-00-10aag7e

The majority of Americans oppose removing President Trump through impeachment, according to a new poll by Monmouth University, even as his approval ratings remain low.

According to the Monmouth poll released Thursday, 35% of Americans support impeaching Mr. Trump and removing him from office, while 59% of Americans oppose that course of action. Only 41% of Americans want the House Judiciary Committee to open an impeachment inquiry against the president.

[DonaldsRump]

1. Wait until after Labor Day

...the Clinton impeachment inquiry didn't begin in earnest until after Labor Day, with the full House voting impeachment just before Christmas 1998.

Similarly, in 1974, the House Judiciary Committee started in full overdrive sometime in May or June of that year, voting three Articles of Impeachment in late July, and Nixon was gone by August 9.

Doesn't take a huge amount of time, and when the evidence comes out, I'll bet you the numbers change significantly. The House has been in recess for a while and things will start heating up soon.

Watergate, which was clearly awful, and "Monicagate", which was zero, are nothing compared to Russiagate.

(I hope!)

[Kurt V.]

2. 72% of dems do. we can't frame everything around republicans. so tired of that.

[brush]

3. Tsk, tsk, tsk! We live in a majority dumbell country if this is true.

[Kilgore]

5. And they vote

[stopbush]

4. Not bad, considering 60% of the country has no idea what impeachment is.

[Kilgore]

6. And they vote

[Joe941]

8. You should have to pass a civics test in order to vote.

[Kilgore]

10. It's possible

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/should-voters-have-to-pass-a-civics-test

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I could hold off if there's a better way to punish him and to clip his nails.

[sharedvalues]

9. Same with Nixon six months before his sure impeachment

[harumph]

11. If the choice was between die in jail and impeachment - I choose the former

[DemocraticSocialist8]

12. These polls are largely irrelevant and only shows the world how

clueless so many Americans are to the threat Trump poses not only to the country but to the entire world. Impeachment should never be based on public sentiment because you can't expect a large group of people to equally understand the danger Trump poses. Also take into account that many Americans support him and therefore will be biased anyway. Impeachment is about whether or not Trump broke the law and/or the damage he could do in the future. It's about checks and balances, not damn opinion polls. I'm growing tired of political opinion polls because they don't tell the whole story and can be manipulated.

[pnwmom]

13. I'd like to know what the damn question said. n/t

[AncientGeezer]

16. From the poll

[QUESTIONS 4 & 5 WERE ROTATED]
4. Do you think President Trump should be impeached and compelled to leave the Presidency, or not?

[NCLefty]

14. It's not surprising. They've been lied to by Republicans the entire time.

[Poiuyt]

15. There has never been a concerted effort to educate the public about what trump has done

The fact that Pelosi has been putting the brakes on doesn't help matters at all.