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51% say US Senate should vote for a conviction to remove Trump from office…Poll….

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This fits with Trump’s disapproval/approval numbers….

Donald J. Trump has less than a majority of America supporting him…

A majority evidently think he’s a crook ….

Ba higher margin they would find Trump guilty of the specific US House charges….

Absent the electoral college Republic thing?

Or…

A Majority US Senate for his Republican Party?

He’d be out of luck…

About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trumpand 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….
Forty-four percent of Americans approve of the job that President Trump is doing as commander in chief days before his Senate impeachment trial is set to begin, according to a new Gallup poll.Trump’s approval rating has remained steady in recent weeks, hovering between 43 percent and 45 percent since late November, according to the survey giant. The president’s approval rating was slightly lower at the start of the impeachment process in the House, which began in late September, hovering between 39 percent and 43 percent.

The impeachment process hasn’t had a significant effect on Trump’s approval rating and he’s enjoying some of the highest of his term as commander in chief, though his job approval ratings still fall below the historical average for other recent presidents….

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  1. Chris Cillizza Retweeted

    Ryan Struyk
    @ryanstruyk
    Presidential approval rating in January ahead of re-election bid via
    @CNN
    :

    Eisenhower 76%
    Johnson 76%
    W Bush 59%
    Carter 58%
    Reagan 55%
    Truman 50%
    Nixon 49%
    Obama 47%
    HW Bush 46%
    Clinton 46%
    Ford 46%
    Trump 43%

  2. Robert Reich
    @RBReich

    Trump’s legal team is essentially arguing that the president cannot be impeached for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” excusing almost all abuses of power.

    This is the kind of legal reasoning you’d expect from an authoritarian, but yet here we are.

    • Of course Trump’s support among Republicans WILL hold and might even climb…

      He’s under political attack…

      He maybe a crook…

      But he’s THEIR crook…

      BTW?

      The number of people who actually BELIEVE he committed the illegal actions IS closer to 60%…

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