Posted on 02/02/2020 2:20:47 PM PST by edwinland
President Trump is emerging from the four-month impeachment process with little sign of damage to his political standing, even though a majority of voters believes he carried out the acts that House Democrats charge in their articles of impeachment, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
Some 46% of voters in the survey said the Senate should remove Mr. Trump from office at the end of the impeachment trial, while 49% said he should serve out his term.
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Mr. Trump’s job approval in the January poll stood at 46%, with 51% disapproving, in line with results throughout the Trump presidency. But the share who “strongly approve’’ of his job performance hit its highest mark, at 36%. Approval among independents rose to its highest level since the summer.
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Mr. McInturff said impeachment had energized Republican voters, to the president’s benefit. “This is Trump’s strongest poll, I think, in three years,” he said.
One reason impeachment has had little impact is that Americans view the proceedings with skepticism, pollsters said. When voters were asked to supply a phrase to describe the trial, one word surfaced prominently among members of both parties: sham.
Nearly 60% in the survey, conducted Jan. 26-29, said that Democrats in the House and Senate were acting on impeachment out of political considerations, while 37% said they were focused on upholding the Constitution. The results were similar for Republican lawmakers.
“That’s an explanatory tool for how we can be going through 4½ months of this process and have Trump where he is,’’ said Mr. McInturff.
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Some 41% picked Mr. Trump in all four matchups, and an equal 41% picked the Democrat in all four tests. That left a swing group of 18%, whose vote depended on which Democrat was named or were undecided.
The Journal/NBC News poll surveyed 1,000 registered voters from Jan. 26-29. The margin of error was plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
Stopped after the first sentence. Nonsense
Just commenting from the headline alone.
Trump supporters have known from the get go it was all BS and not only hardened his base, added to it with others that saw right through the BS
“Registered voters”. The poll was a sham, like almost all polls.
It’s also registered voters nationally, not registered voters by state - as far as figuring out who will win the Presidential race.
That said, if it were Likely Voters, it would be a sign of danger in the House and the Senate. ...but it isn’t, so Junk.
Yes he carried out the acts blah blah blah but he was doing his job and the acts he carried out were right and proper for him and our country well within the bounds of our laws and treaties.
Dear God please let the Democrats pay dearly in the next elections and please don’t withhold your judgment after they present themselves to you hoping for mercy after they are all through with their regrettable lives.
The Dems never dreamed that he would release the transcript. It was a conversation between two leaders of two countries....and no more.
Trump 2020! I am still not tired of winning.
JoMa
“Stopped after the first sentence. Nonsense”
Ditto
The whole ‘Impeachment’ thing was a partisan scam, start to finish.
The democrats have got nothing, so they’re flailing.
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