The tide begins to turn for removing Trump from office.
With the senate trial not even beginning yet, most Americans are in favor of Trump being removed from office. That will likely increase, as the trial proceeds.In response to:
CNN poll: 51% say Senate should remove Trump from office
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director 1/20/2020
According to a new CNN poll, 51 percent of Americans say the Senate should vote to remove Mr. Trump from office while 45 percent support his acquittal. And nearly 70 percent say the trial should feature testimony from new witnesses.
(CNN)About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while 45% say the Senate should vote against conviction and removal.
Nearly seven in 10 (69%) say that upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry. And as Democrats in the Senate seek to persuade at least four Republican senators to join them on votes over allowing witnesses in the trial, the Republican rank and file are divided on the question: 48% say they want new witnesses, while 44% say they do not.
The poll is the first major national telephone poll since the articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate, formally launching Trump's trial there. They are also the first such poll results since Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, publicly implicated the President in the Ukrainian pressure campaign during a series of television interviews.
The new poll also finds majorities of Americans view each of the charges on which Trump will face trial as true: 58% say Trump abused the power of the presidency to obtain an improper personal political benefit and 57% say it is true that he obstructed the House of Representatives in its impeachment inquiry.
Massive partisan gaps continue to dominate views on Trump and his impeachment trial. Overall, 89% of Democrats say he should be removed from office, while just 8% of Republicans feel the same way. Among independents, it's nearly dead even: 48% say the Senate should vote to remove him, while 46% say that they should not. Views on whether Trump should be impeached and removed are also evenly split across battleground states, 49% are on each side across the 15 states decided by 8 points or less in 2016. Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Beyond partisanship, there are wide divisions in the poll by gender, race, education and age. Nearly 6 in 10 women (59%) say the Senate should remove Trump from office; 42% of men agree. Among African Americans, 86% say Trump should be removed. That drops to 65% among Hispanics and 42% among whites.
Combining race and gender, about eight in 10 women of color (79%) say he should be removed. That dips to 59% among non-white men, 49% among white women and 33% among white men. For whites, education adds another degree of division: 59% of white women with college degrees say the Senate should remove Trump, compared with 43% among white women without degrees, 44% among white men with degrees and 27% among white men without college degrees. A majority (56%) of those under age 45 say the President should be removed, while older Americans are more evenly split.
CNN poll: 51% say Senate should remove Trump from office
By Jennifer Agiesta, CNN Polling Director 1/20/2020
According to a new CNN poll, 51 percent of Americans say the Senate should vote to remove Mr. Trump from office while 45 percent support his acquittal. And nearly 70 percent say the trial should feature testimony from new witnesses.
(CNN)About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while 45% say the Senate should vote against conviction and removal.
Nearly seven in 10 (69%) say that upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry. And as Democrats in the Senate seek to persuade at least four Republican senators to join them on votes over allowing witnesses in the trial, the Republican rank and file are divided on the question: 48% say they want new witnesses, while 44% say they do not.
The poll is the first major national telephone poll since the articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate, formally launching Trump's trial there. They are also the first such poll results since Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani, publicly implicated the President in the Ukrainian pressure campaign during a series of television interviews.
The new poll also finds majorities of Americans view each of the charges on which Trump will face trial as true: 58% say Trump abused the power of the presidency to obtain an improper personal political benefit and 57% say it is true that he obstructed the House of Representatives in its impeachment inquiry.
Massive partisan gaps continue to dominate views on Trump and his impeachment trial. Overall, 89% of Democrats say he should be removed from office, while just 8% of Republicans feel the same way. Among independents, it's nearly dead even: 48% say the Senate should vote to remove him, while 46% say that they should not. Views on whether Trump should be impeached and removed are also evenly split across battleground states, 49% are on each side across the 15 states decided by 8 points or less in 2016. Those states are Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Beyond partisanship, there are wide divisions in the poll by gender, race, education and age. Nearly 6 in 10 women (59%) say the Senate should remove Trump from office; 42% of men agree. Among African Americans, 86% say Trump should be removed. That drops to 65% among Hispanics and 42% among whites.
Combining race and gender, about eight in 10 women of color (79%) say he should be removed. That dips to 59% among non-white men, 49% among white women and 33% among white men. For whites, education adds another degree of division: 59% of white women with college degrees say the Senate should remove Trump, compared with 43% among white women without degrees, 44% among white men with degrees and 27% among white men without college degrees. A majority (56%) of those under age 45 say the President should be removed, while older Americans are more evenly split.
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@Miclee
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It's jealousy.
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GALLUP: Majority Opposes Trump Removal
By MATTHEW CONTINETTI
January 21, 2020 10:55 AM
"As if we needed further evidence of our divided country: Gallup’s latest poll shows that a majority, 51 percent to 46 percent, opposes removing President Trump from office."
More @ -
However, it was noted, that the Gallup focused on adults.
While the other poll focused on voters.
I believe that the voters carry more significance with regard to the question of removal.
But, just for the sake of compromise, lets call it a tie.
I'm OK with 50/50 at this point.
That's much more in favor of removal than months ago,
and this is before all the evidence is presented to the senate & public.
My prediction is, that as the trial progresses, the % in favor of removal will increase
for both polls. But time will tell.
On your BRAIN
I'm starting to wonder are you a paid propagandist for the DNC? You basically copy and paste and spew every über left-wing talking point ad nauseum.
Ever try independent thought?
THIS TIME WE REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY MEAN IT !!!!
REPENT SINNERS !!!
I figure the blog deserves the appropriate respect....in kind....lol
Short of being illegal, I don't care if what he is doing makes his family and his businesses a trillion zillion dollars. Good for him! What does that matter? What he is doing is making the country and all of the people in it safer, stronger and more prosperous. That's all I care about. That's his job. And he is one of the few people in Washington who IS doing his job.
You have no evidence that President Trump has done or is doing anything illegal to increase profits for his business.
Why has he steered diplomats to stay at his hotel in DC ?
Why, does he have his family run his businesses, when he is supposed to have someone out of his control run them ?
Why did he raise Mar-A-Lago rates so much ?
Why did he try to get government meetings at his hotels ?
How about all those shell companies started by Michael Cohen, where money was being funneled into those accounts by foreign nations ?
After he is out of office, he has a lot of answering to do in court.
The Democrats have had years to investigate this constant accusation so there should be a very detailed accounting of the evidence to support it by now.
Post it.
Got to give the guy credit though .... wait... scratch that, I can't think of anything to give him credit for...
However, I think it is cute, that you two actually think that your ridiculous comments are worthy of me doing work for you.
Again, Trump will have the Southern District of NY to show him all the evidence. He will have lots of answering to do. Pity one can't indict a sitting president. He certainly deserves it.
Examples of Trump’s Unconstitutional Emoluments
President Trump has at no time sought or received the consent of Congress to accept any foreign emoluments, even though public reporting makes clear that he has already violated the Clause in at least three respects:
Foreign States Paying for Space in Trump-Owned Towers
The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which is owned by China, leases space in Manhattan’s Trump Tower. The bank’s lease is estimated to be “worth close to $2 million annually.” [Washington Post, July 5, 2018]
The governments of Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, and Thailand all pay for space in Manhattan’s Trump World Tower. During the first eight months of Trump’s presidency, more foreign governments sought permission to lease space in Trump World Tower than in the previous two years combined. [Reuters, May 2, 2019] [Mansion Global, May 4, 2018]
Foreign States Paying for Rooms and Events at Trump Hotels
The Saudi Arabian government paid approximately $270,000 for rooms and expenses at Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., between November 2016 and February 2017. [Politico, Feb. 9, 2017] [Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2017]
The Embassy of Kuwait held its National Day Celebration at Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel in February 2017. The estimated price of the celebration was between $40,000 and $60,000. The next year, the embassy again paid for a celebration at the hotel. [Reuters, Feb. 27, 2017] [Washington Post, January 26, 2018]
The Malaysian Prime Minister and dozens of members of his diplomatic delegation stayed at President Trump’s Washington, D.C., hotel in September 2017, with the Prime Minister reportedly traveling from the hotel in a motorcade straight to the White House for a meeting with the President. [Washington Post, September 12, 2017]
Foreign States Giving Intellectual Property Rights to Trump Companies
Since Trump became President, the Chinese government has approved 40 new trademarks to Trump and his companies. Circumstances suggest that these trademarks were approved or expedited as a result of Trump’s status as President of the United States; the director of a Hong Kong intellectual property consultancy, for instance, “said he had never seen so many applications approved so expeditiously,” and the approvals closely followed Trump’s abrupt decision to honor the one-China policy, in contrast to his earlier statements. [Associated Press, Mar. 9, 2017]
In addition to the emoluments that have been publicly reported, there are almost certainly many more that are not yet known about — that, in fact, it is impossible to know about absent judicial process to compel Trump to provide information about his businesses and the benefits he has received from foreign states.
Moscow Mitch is desperately trying to block amendment after amendment offered by the dems to allow concealed documents and witnesses.
It's clear, that they are desperate to not let the truth be revealed to the public.
Emoluments...again...sigh.
Southern District....by 2024 there won't be a liberal judge left. Ask the ninth circuit.
Your honor, I call Adam Schiff to the stand....he's where? Iran....
I truly believe the Democrats will be sent a devastating message this November, one they may take decades to recover from.
Quite likely so.
Discussing 'Crat prospects IRL with a few politically savvy types -
They're going in circles just to get a challenger to The Don.
* If they go with Sleepy Joe, it's like running up the white flag. He'll lose bigly.
* Pocahontas does poorly with the 'Crat minority base. She's done.
* Most think a Bernie/Gabbard ticket would do best vs The Don, but still lose.
* But running a Communist would put off big Corporation Donors.
* Lack of donations means less funding on more competitive races down the ballot.
* So send in Sleepy & try to get enough of a War Chest to retain the House. Maybe.
Bottom line - 'Crats are totally defensive & in damage control.
If they lose, Amy Coney-Barrett will replace RBG on SCOTUS. They're desperate.
(See Jenny's Secret Sauce blog.)
It could be a long, LONG Election Season & next several years for 'em
Trump won't be removed, just another impeachment going
the wrong way, no president that had been impeached had been
removed from office
However, time will tell. Certainly a senate that does not allow new evidence, nor witnesses is a malfunctioning senate and thus, it requires repairs.
Hildebeest slung that bs, Raph, & Gabbard's has filed a $50 Million defamation suit against her
However, time will tell. Certainly a senate that does not allow new evidence, nor witnesses is a malfunctioning senate and thus, it requires repairs.
what you really mean Jimmy is if the senate don't pander to the leftist views of the house they should change their view . Still no facts and evidence presented Jimmy .
Part of the reason is that they perceive the Impeachment to be prejudiced against The Don & he's the victim of a rigged system.
Incredibly - the 'Crat Impeachment fiasco has caused their OWN minority base to not merely support, but IDENTIFY with a White Billionaire 'Publican.
The newly alienated minority folk are welcomed aboard the Trump Train by Deplorables previously alienated by Hildebeest
Good going, 'Crats
what you really mean Jim
I would say the exact same thing if the situation was the same,
but the political sides were reverse.
I never heard of any trial not allowing witnesses nor documents.
I hope never hear of it again.
Trials routinely allow new witnesses and documents.
That is more complete justice.