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Most Voters Don’t Expect Senate to Convict Trump, Won’t Watch Impeachment Trial
Rasmussen Reports ^ | 02/09/2021

Posted on 02/10/2021 7:10:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The Senate begins its impeachment trial of former President Trump this week, but most voters don’t believe Trump will be convicted and few expect to watch the entire trial on TV.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 11% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is very likely the Senate will convict Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Another 20% say conviction is somewhat likely. Twenty-eight percent (28%) think it’s not very likely the Senate will convict Trump and 36% say conviction is not likely at all. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The House voted last month to impeach then-President Trump on charges that he incited his supporters to riot at the Capitol on January 6. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction.

Only 15% of voters say they’ll watch the entire Senate impeachment trial on TV, and 21% expect to watch most of it. Thirty percent (30%) say they’ll watch some of Trump’s trial, but 32% won’t watch any of it.

The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on February 4 and 7, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Democrats are more likely than Republicans to expect the Senate to convict Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” but even among Democrats, a majority are doubtful of conviction. Only 14% of Democrats say it’s very likely Trump will be convicted, and another 28% say a Senate conviction vote is somewhat likely. Fifty-two percent (53%) of Democrats say Trump’s conviction is either not very likely or not likely at all, a view shared by 72% of Republicans

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: impaechment; senate; trial; voters
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1 posted on 02/10/2021 7:10:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Immediately after the Jan. 6 rally-turned-violent at the U.S. Capitol, Rasmussen reported that half of all voters supported removing President Trump from office before President Biden’s inauguration.  However, two weeks later, the Rasmussen Report noted that “57% of Voters Say Trump Impeachment Will Further Divide America.”  This is a dramatic switch from just two weeks before, and reflects the fact that Trump had largely faded from the news.  Since most Trump-created news was linked to his most incendiary tweets. his absence from the national stage showed this remarkable reversal.

So, with President Trump unable to “stir the pot” with his public Twitter announcements, the very idea of his impeachment faded from view, until people were not expecting anything to come of the trial beyond some political grand-standing and a further division among Americans.

2 posted on 02/10/2021 7:12:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Voters feel cheated.


3 posted on 02/10/2021 7:12:06 AM PST by FreedBird (T)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait, what? What trial? Pffft.


4 posted on 02/10/2021 7:17:52 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me! )
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To: FreedBird

Voters WERE cheated and will be now and forever more...


5 posted on 02/10/2021 7:18:09 AM PST by Shady (WHO MURDERED ASHLI BABBITT? )
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To: SeekAndFind
President Trump has options to turn this circus into a sh[t show.

1) Call out Harris for not being a Natural Born Citizen as defined in Sen. Resolution 511 (2008). Neither of her parents were ‘... American citizen parents’ at her birth. Do so by asking for the names of her American citizen parents, as noticed in the Resolution.

see - link regarding NBC

2) If they still want to impeach someone, call out Obama for not being a Natural Born Citizen and remove the 44th President from history by impeachment.

3) Then suggest they impeach Joe Biden for election fraud for accepting an unqualified VP as running mate. Then they can impeach every Senator who voted to confirm Harris or Obama on election fraud grounds.

4) Have the FEC de-certify the Democrat National Committee as an on-going criminal enterprise for proposing unqualified candidates in past elections. Overnite all the (D)s become (I)s.

5) Challenge the seats of all members of Congress who voted to certify Gropin’ Joe and Kamalatoes and remove the ones elected in fraud-ridden elections.

6) After the trial, put up a ‘Help Wanted’ with the thought of firing and replacing 2/3 of all non-military federal workers. That would include the entire FBI, DOJ, and the arrest of all CIA operatives found stateside.

You can find the meaning of Natural Born Citizen here.

en.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/1st_Congress/2nd_Session/Chapter_3

Look for this part:

“And the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond sea, Also, children of citizens born beyond sea, &c. or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens: Provided, That the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never been resident in the United States”

That seems to be a painfully clear definition of what was meant by “Natural Born Citizen” to me; that regardless of location of birth, American kids belong to their parents. Just as foreign kids belong to their parents regardless of location of birth.

There you have it. THE GREAT RESET to MAGA!

6 posted on 02/10/2021 7:19:35 AM PST by RideForever (We are born to be tested ...)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is nothing more than lefty fantasy theater. Trump just wants this done with a not guilty verdict so he can go back to destroying the anti Trumpers and liberal democrats.

That is his new hobby.


7 posted on 02/10/2021 7:20:19 AM PST by oldenuff35
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To: SeekAndFind

This is nothing more than lefty fantasy theater. Trump just wants this done with a not guilty verdict so he can go back to destroying the anti Trumpers and liberal democrats.

That is his new hobby.


8 posted on 02/10/2021 7:21:02 AM PST by oldenuff35
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To: SeekAndFind
Only 15% of voters say they'll watch the entire Senate impeachment trial on TV,

Still too high.
Who wants to watch a totally meaningless Soviet style show trial?
You can't impeach someone who is already out of office.
Its like when the British “executed” Oliver Cromwell when he was already dead. By definition, you can't “execute” a dead person.

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9 posted on 02/10/2021 7:21:06 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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Only 15% of voters say they’ll watch the entire Senate impeachment trial on TV

15% of those hate filled Lefties who are not working and just eat up this pile of crap.

10 posted on 02/10/2021 7:22:36 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Wait a second. IPSO/ABC did one the other day saying that 52% favored conviction. What has happened in that short time? Has more evidence been discovered? Who is the star witness?

Like EVERYTHING they do, the Left/Democrats/Media, make a mockery of EVERYTHING and are NEVER held accountable. Nor do they have any shame about what they do or say.


11 posted on 02/10/2021 7:23:16 AM PST by qaz123
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To: RideForever
Then they can impeach every Senator

Don't think so. They can have their committee assignments taken away but only the voters can remove them.

12 posted on 02/10/2021 7:28:00 AM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing but a complete sham anyway. The Senate has no constitutional basis for trying a private citizen. He can’t be tried. He can’t be convicted. The Chief Justice isn’t even involved. There’s nothing in the US Constitution authorizing this fiasco.

If they did “convict”, the Supreme Court would have no choice but to invalidate the whole thing if it ever went to court.


13 posted on 02/10/2021 7:29:24 AM PST by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It is unfair & illegitimate, like the Biden & Harris Administration!


14 posted on 02/10/2021 7:33:21 AM PST by Lopeover (Biden & Harris are illegitimate.)
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To: RideForever

children of citizens born beyond sea, &c. or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

“shall be considered as” means they are not natural born citizens.
They later repealed that after realizing their mistake.
Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents.

Jus Soli and Jus Sanguine.

Blood AND soil


15 posted on 02/10/2021 7:39:44 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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few expect to watch the entire trial on TV.

Do you remember watching the impeachment trial of William Jefferson Clinton? I'm not surprised because it wasn't on television.

16 posted on 02/10/2021 7:39:47 AM PST by libertylover (This is not your Founding Fathers' United States of America anymore.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

The Roberts court is a sham itself.


17 posted on 02/10/2021 7:40:48 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SeekAndFind

I still remember when the Watergate Hearings monopolized every TV station all day long back in 1973.


18 posted on 02/10/2021 7:45:38 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s an ugly show trial by filthy democrats... not much different than when democrats would railroad some innocent black person in the Jim Crow south...


19 posted on 02/10/2021 8:18:49 AM PST by GOPJ (If democrat thugs are gonna kill me - I'm gonna try to have it done before "the showers"...)
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To: FreedBird

Heard someone use the analogy of a criminal stealing your diamond necklace, you can’t prove they did and they flaunt it right in front of you.
What do they want?


20 posted on 02/10/2021 8:19:45 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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