A new national poll indicates that only 8% of Republican voters support President Trump’s impeachment and his removal from office.
This contrasts sharply with the 89% of Democrats and 45% of independents questioned in an NBC News poll released on Thursday, which supports impeachment and the removal of the president for encouraging last week’s invasion of the Capitol by Trump supporters and extreme right-wing extremists protesting Congressional certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory over the president.
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The poll was conducted from January 10 to 13, mainly before and shortly after Wednesday’s 232-197 vote by the House of Representatives for Trump’s impeachment for “inciting insurrection”. Ten Republicans voted to impeach the president – joining all 222 Democrats – with 197 House Republicans voting against the impeachment and four Republican lawmakers not voting.
The Senate, which is controlled by the Republican Party early next week, will not start an impeachment trial until the day Biden takes office as president, meaning that the trial is unlikely to be concluded until a few weeks after Trump leaves office. White House .
President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
The 8% of Republicans who support Trump’s impeachment and removal from office are identical to the 8% of Republicans who said the same thing about the House Democrats’ previous impeachment over the controversy in Ukraine in December 2019 NBC News / Wall Street Journal vote.
Approximately seven out of ten Americans questioned in a new ABC News / Washington Post poll say Trump has at least some responsibility for taking over the Capitol, and 56% support the efforts of Democrats and a handful of Republican lawmakers in Congress to prevent Trump elected office be held again.
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But only 42% of Republicans think Trump has at least some responsibility for the attack, which left five people dead, including a Capitol police officer, and the building vandalized. And only 12% of Republicans polled in the poll said Congress should oust Trump from office and disqualify him from running for president again.
This Wednesday, January 6, 2021, archival photo, violent protesters invade the Capitol in Washington, DC Federal prosecutors say a retired Air Force officer who was part of the crowd that invaded the US Capitol was arrested on Sunday , January 10, 2021, in Texas. (AP Photo / John Minchillo, Archive)
The president’s approval rating in the ABC News / Washington Post poll – released on Friday and conducted from January 10 to 13 – dropped to 38%. But among Republicans it remained a hefty 79%, up from 88% in October, the last time ABC News and the Washington Post asked the question.
And six out of ten Republicans say they want the Republican Party to follow Trump. That fell from 83% two years ago – when the question was last asked – but it is still a strong majority of Republican voters.
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A Quinnipiac University survey conducted in the three days immediately after the Capitol insurrection and released earlier this week showed that the president’s approval among voters across the country dropped to 33%, 11 points below last month. But it has 71% approval among Republicans. That’s a 89% drop in last month’s Quinnipiac poll, but still healthy.
The poll also showed that six out of ten voters across the country said Trump was undermining democracy. But nearly three-quarters of the Republicans questioned in the poll said the president was protecting democracy.
Trump refused to yield to Biden and repeatedly and falsely claimed that there was “massive voter fraud” in what he calls a “rigged” presidential election.
While 93% of Democrats and six out of 10 independent voters said they did not believe that there was widespread electoral fraud in the November election, nearly three-quarters of Republicans believe that there was widespread electoral fraud.