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struggle4progress

(118,294 posts) Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:54 AM Oct 2019

Approval six points lower than support for impeachment

BY SHANE CROUCHER ON 10/1/19 AT 6:39 AM EDT

... The Quinnipiac University National Poll found that 41 percent of voting Americans approve of the way Trump is handling the presidency against 53 percent who disapprove.

And 47 percent of voters think Trump should be impeached and removed from office. The figure is the same for those who think he should not. However, this is a ten point movement on both in just five days.

The most recent poll was conducted on September 30. Five days earlier, another Quinnipiac poll showed support for Trump's impeachment at 37 percent and opposition at 57 percent ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-lower-impeachment-poll-quinnipiac-1462267

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Approval six points lower than support for impeachment (Original Post) struggle4progress Oct 2019 OP

Aides warning him he faces real likelihood of impeachment struggle4progress Oct 2019 #1

He thinks if he goes out and does big events his supporters things will be fine. redstatebluegirl Oct 2019 #2

struggle4progress

(118,294 posts)

1. Aides warning him he faces real likelihood of impeachment

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Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:57 AM

Oct 2019

BY CHRISTINA ZHAO ON 9/30/19 AT 9:27 PM EDT

... "I'm told aides of the president have cautioned him just in the last few days he faces the real likelihood of impeachment," Acosta said during a segment on CNN's The Situation Room, adding that his sources say the aides are "divided" over the issue.

Some have been "reassuring the president that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is just placating Democrats and won't ultimately drive the process toward an impeachment vote," he explained.

Acosta then referenced a new CNN poll, which showed that the public is becoming more open to impeachment, with 47 percent saying they support impeachment and removing the president from office, compared to just 41 percent in May ...

https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-own-aides-have-been-warning-him-that-he-faces-real-likelihood-impeachment-says-cnns-1462206

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)

2. He thinks if he goes out and does big events his supporters things will be fine.