Posted on 06/22/2018 12:36:40 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
(CNN)There is a truly remarkable number in the most recent CNN poll, conducted by SSRS and out this morning.
In it, 42% of Americans say President Donald Trump should be impeached and removed from office. What makes it remarkable is that he's on par with President Richard Nixon, who 43% of Americans said should be impeached and removed from office in a March 1974 Harris poll. That was after the scale of Watergate came to light, but months before the House started to move against Nixon, who would go on to resign in August 1974 rather than be impeached.
Impeachment requires "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors," according to the Constitution, which also lists it as the the only thing for which a President can't issue a pardon. Trump has bragged that he certainly has the power to pardon himself but won't need to use it. Nixon got a pardon from Gerald Ford, the man to whom he gave the keys to the White House.
The 43% supporting Nixon's impeachment in that Harris poll, by the way, is much higher than the 29% who supported impeachment for President Bill Clinton in 1998. Or, for that matter, the similar number who wanted Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush impeached. As CNN's Grace Sparks writes, there's basically "a baseline of pro-impeachment sentiment for a modern president" and Trump far eclipses it. So why aren't top Democrats clamoring to impeach Trump? To be sure, there are efforts on the outskirts of the party and in Congress, but they do not have the backing of party big wigs.
Most Democrats in Congress, for the record, have opposed efforts by Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat, to bring the issue to the floor of the House.
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Fake News responding to polls saying the majority blame the parents for having their kids separated, not POTUS.
Looks like SSRS has a long history of biased polls.
https://www.trigtent.com/usa/biased-ssrs-poll-tries-show-low-trump-approval-rating
Fake News Up to my Ass
Wanting a political opponent impeached without bothering to specify a legal reason is a moral self indictment.
I call complete B S & utter hope on the part of our “media”.
Because it will be CWII and Trump's supporters are the lazy ignorant lower class POS's with the guns.
So, you’re not a fan of extra long ties.
They are crazy, but not stupid. A successful impeachment would be the last straw for many (CW-2) and they know it.
Impeach Trump and we’ll go back to the Obama years with high unemployment and bleak economy.
The author found a fake poll he liked and then pretended what he wishes were true is “analysis.”
Funny I never saw a poll asking if Obozo should have been impeached.
That was what I was going to ask.
Thanks.
More liberal pap.
5.56mm
Poor little snowflakes, triggered by the “CNN Sucks!” chanting at the rallies.
Push Poll
That works out to a 40% Dem, 40% Rep, 20% Ind weighting. So now we know CNN polled all Dems, and then lied about the affiliation of 60% of them.
They mean at CNN there is support for impeachment.
Normal Americans love the guy.
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