The emphasis IS on the concept of an ‘inquiry’ NOT a impeachment vote….
The poll mirrors early polling with only a 42% of those polled FOR out right impeachment …
Democrats still have a way to go to try yo get the public behind a effort to remove Trump from office with Republicans STRONGLY against THAT...
More than half of Americans — and an overwhelming number of Democrats — say they approve of the fact that Congress has opened an impeachment inquiry into President Trump. But as the inquiry begins, there is no national consensus on how to assess the president’s actions.
Partisans have immediately and predictably split: most Democrats call the president’s handling of matters with Ukraine illegal, and deserving of impeachment.
Most Republicans call his actions proper — or, even if improper, then still legal — and feel they’re an example of things that past presidents typically did, too. Most Americans think that because Congress is now taking up the matter, it will be unable to work on other issues.
Almost nine in 10 Democrats approve of the inquiry, and two-thirds strongly approve….
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There is division over whether the president’s deserves to be impeached. Just slightly more feel he does than he doesn’t, and almost a quarter feel it’s too soon to say — most of them say they want to wait to see what the facts show.
FiveThirtyEight….
In the week since The Wall Street Journal first broke the news that President Trump allegedly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son in a July phone call, six pollsters1 have released surveys asking Americans whether they support impeaching the president.
The polling we have so far mostly shows an uptick in support for impeachment. But according to the initial polls at least, public opinion doesn’t seem to have shifted dramatically from where it was following both the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on April 18 and Mueller’s testimony before Congress on July 24. The majority of Americans still do not favor impeachment, although more than two-thirds of Democrats do….
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