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How Watergate eroded support for Nixon (Original Post) struggle4progress May 2019 OP
How unpopular is Donald Trump? struggle4progress May 2019 #1
Public remains divided over Mueller probe in new NBC/WSJ poll struggle4progress May 2019 #2
Yep, similar numbers of impeachment for Nixon as for Red Don but Nixon's numbers were in the 20s ... uponit7771 May 2019 #3
Nixon could have survived this. Xolodno May 2019 #4

struggle4progress

(118,320 posts)
2. Public remains divided over Mueller probe in new NBC/WSJ poll
Tue May 7, 2019, 03:14 PM
May 2019

Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, but it's a mixed bag on impeachment hearings.

May 5, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
By Mark Murray

WASHINGTON — Sixty percent of Americans say President Donald Trump has been dishonest in the Russia investigation, while only a third believe the report by special counsel Robert Mueller clears the president of wrongdoing.

Still, the public remains divided on impeaching Trump, with nearly half of respondents opposing holding impeachment hearings, and with the other half supporting either immediate impeachment proceedings or future congressional investigations to study the issue further.

Those are the findings of the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which was conducted after Mueller’s 448-page report was released to the public on April 18 ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/hung-jury-public-remains-divided-over-mueller-probe-new-nbc-n1001886

uponit7771

(90,348 posts)
3. Yep, similar numbers of impeachment for Nixon as for Red Don but Nixon's numbers were in the 20s ...
Tue May 7, 2019, 04:27 PM
May 2019

... where as no on really ever liked Red Don

Xolodno

(6,398 posts)
4. Nixon could have survived this.
Tue May 7, 2019, 04:29 PM
May 2019

If he came out bluntly and stated the Watergate burglary was a case of his minions going a few steps too far and was unaware, but panicked when he found out, apologized...declare the information he received was mostly useless, because all he had to do was turn on the news in the morning and he would know what his political opponents were going to do to him (and that was true), then apologize again because it happened on his watch. He wouldn't have had to resign. Reagan learned from this.

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