Fox News poll finds independents want the Senate to convict and remove Trump by 19-point margin

Authored by theweek.com and submitted by DaFunkJunkie

President Trump's defense team will wage its second day of arguments in his Senate impeachment trial on Monday, explaining to the Republican-controlled chamber why it should acquit Trump on both impeachment charges and not call witnesses later this week. A Fox News poll released Sunday found that voters think the Senate already has enough evidence to render its verdict — 48 percent to 44 percent who say senators should subpoena witnesses. But by a margin of 6 percentage points, they think the evidence points to guilt and removal from office.

New Fox News poll: by a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Trump convicted and removed from office. pic.twitter.com/G2IStl7TlC — Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 26, 2020

Two polls last week found that 51 percent of Americans want the Senate to convict and oust Trump, whose approval rating in the Fox News poll is 45 percent, 54 percent disapproval. By comparison, Fox News notes, "around the time former President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial began in January 1999, some 38 percent said the Senate should remove him from office, and 65 percent approved of the job he was doing as president."

Luckily for Trump, the party with a Senate majority is taking his side — 84 percent of Republicans told the Fox News pollsters that Trump shouldn't be convicted and removed, versus 81 percent of Democrats who said he should be; independents wanted Trump removed by a 19-point margin, 53 percent to 34 percent.

The poll was conducted Jan. 19-22 by Beacon Research (D) and Shaw & Co. (R), surveying 1,005 randomly selected registered votes over the phone. The poll's overall margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points. Peter Weber

shillyshally on January 27th, 2020 at 15:52 UTC »

The original article is more interesting than this rehash.

More disapprove than approve of his job performance on every other issue tested on the poll. He’s underwater on guns (42 percent approve, 51 percent disapprove), immigration (41-56), foreign policy (40-56), health care (38-54), government spending (37-55), race relations (37-56), and the environment (35-57).

Views are mixed on Trump’s handling of trade: 44 percent think he’s been successful in revising trade deals to make them more favorable to the U.S., while 45 percent disagree.

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On impeachment, by a 50-44 percent margin, voters think the Senate should vote to convict Trump and remove him from office. Most Democrats say remove (81 percent) and most Republicans disagree (84 percent). Among independents, more say Trump should be removed by a 19-point margin (53-34 percent).

desquished on January 27th, 2020 at 14:51 UTC »

I like this take. "There's no need for the Senate to call witnesses or subpoena documents because THEY ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH TO CONVICT THIS MFER."

Zaggie on January 27th, 2020 at 14:34 UTC »

This is the poll that the GOP needs to make note of if it expects to retain the Presidency and the Senate this fall.

Then the question becomes: Could Pence be impeached for HIS role in the Ukrainian quid pro quo? And be facing his own impeachment trial as President and presumptive GOP nominee? And if that happened, would the GOP consider another candidate for nomination?