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swag

(26,480 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:10 AM Oct 2019

Gallup: 52% say Trump should be impeached and removed, up from 45% in June

https://news.gallup.com/poll/267491/congress-approval-support-impeaching-trump.aspx

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Currently, 52% say Trump should be impeached and removed from office, while 46% say he should not be. This is roughly the opposite of what Gallup found in June when asked in the context of special counselor Robert Mueller's investigation.
Support for President Trump's Impeachment and Removal from Office, June vs. October 2019

Since June, Democrats' and independents' support for impeachment has grown, while Republicans' views have not changed. The change among independents is enough that a majority of that group (55%) now favors Trump being impeached and removed from office. Support for impeachment was already high among Democrats, at 81%, but now approaches 90%. Just 6% of Republicans are in favor of Trump being impeached.

(Compared with Clinton and Nixon...)

Support for impeachment and removal of both former presidents was 19% in Gallup's initial reading for each.

Americans' support for Clinton's impeachment and removal did grow from there but never came close to majority level, maxing out at 35% in the months before the Republican-led House voted to impeach him.

By contrast, public support for Nixon's impeachment and removal from office swelled over the course of a year as revelations of his wrongdoings continued.

By the time the House was prepared to impeach Nixon, a majority of Americans favored impeachment and removal. The 58% Gallup found in late August 1974 was triple the initial level of support recorded in June 1973.
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Gallup: 52% say Trump should be impeached and removed, up from 45% in June (Original Post) swag Oct 2019 OP
More, more, more! (these ever increasingly favorable polls give me some daily "sustenance" ) hlthe2b Oct 2019 #1
WHOA !!! Impeached and removed is going up, Trump is number one ... he's beating Nixon's numbers uponit7771 Oct 2019 #2
Amazing, And Here's The Thing, I Suspect These Numbers are IRREVERSIBLE Skraxx Oct 2019 #3
I think it will be above 60 by the end of the year. nt Javaman Oct 2019 #4
Implications for next November Johnny2X2X Oct 2019 #5
those poll numbers bdamomma Oct 2019 #6
I think a lot of these "Independents" are DeminPennswoods Oct 2019 #7

Skraxx

(2,965 posts)
3. Amazing, And Here's The Thing, I Suspect These Numbers are IRREVERSIBLE
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:25 AM
Oct 2019

I see now viable way for him to reverse this, it may stabilize or it may continue to rise, but I don't see how he could bring this back down.

Johnny2X2X

(18,744 posts)
5. Implications for next November
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:54 AM
Oct 2019

So if Trump wants to win the GE next year, he's going to have to convince millions of people who now think he should be impeached and removed from office to vote for him.

I don't know about you, but if I think someone needs to be removed from office I can't imagine a scenario where I'd vote for them in a year. I can't imagine if Bill Clinton had gotten in trouble in his first term and was getting impeached and I believed his transgressions were enough to remove him from office that I would have voted for him for a 2nd term. And this is a lot more serious that what Clinton did (lied to Congress). This would have to have been a much more serious Clinton crime, an imaginary one for this argument alone.

I just can;t see many people saying to themselves, "OK, I believe this person needs to be removed from office, but now I'll vote for them to stay in office anyway."

bdamomma

(63,654 posts)
6. those poll numbers
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 10:57 AM
Oct 2019

need to go up.


We have a big problem now restoring our credibility to the rest of world, apparently our names are mud, since the pullout of our troops in Syria. This is horrible.

All of us are going to be called cowards, and as far as Kurdish people we all voted for tRump. We need to get this POS out.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
7. I think a lot of these "Independents" are
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 11:03 AM
Oct 2019

really former Republicans (i.e., Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt, David Jolly, Max Boot, etc, types) which is why Trump support among Republicans is still so fantastically high. But, I agree that these numbers are only going to increase once the transcripts of the depositions are released and open hearning begin.

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