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BY JASON EASLEY
Poll Shows GOP Getting Politically Pummeled On Trump Impeachment
A new poll shows that the American people are siding with Democrats on impeachment and Republicans are already paying a price for defending Trump.
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/10/08/impeachment-poll-gop.html
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The Washington Post reported on the new Washington Post/Schar School Poll:
At this early stage in the impeachment inquiry, whose timing is fraught as the country barrels toward an election year, the public is siding more with congressional Democrats than Republicans when it comes to their responses so far. By a margin of 49 percent to 44 percent, Americans narrowly approve of the way congressional Democrats are responding to the inquiry. But by a margin of 56 percent to 33 percent, they say they disapprove of the way congressional Republicans are responding. The latter tally includes more than one-third of Republicans who disapprove of how their partys congressional representatives are dealing with this.
Majorities of Americans say Democrats in Congress are making a necessary stand against Trumps actions (61 percent) and are acting to uphold their constitutional duties (53 percent). Similarly, a majority (55 percent) say Democrats are not overreacting by starting the impeachment inquiry. However, in a potential warning sign to Democrats, 50 percent of Americans say that the impeachment proceeding is distracting Congress from more important issues, slightly higher than the percent who disagree (46 percent).
The poll also found cracks in the Republican Party on impeachment as more younger and moderate Republicans support the impeachment investigation than conservatives.
The damage from impeachment is spreading out from Trump and to those who defend him. 49% of those surveyed in the poll support removing Trump from office. Republicans have already seen that Trumps base is not big enough to help them win elections. Impeachment is making the Republican Party even smaller, and as long as Democrats move fast on impeachment, which they are doing, Republicans in Congress who defend Trump are going to be damaged by sticking up for Trumps potential crimes against his country.
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)back home in some normally very safe districts.
In the meantime we just get to pile shit up on trump and his entire administration.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)They are watching the pollls very closely.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)What more can we do to highlight that the republican senate is holding up all legislation?
I love that the impeachment needle has moved. I wish we could make progress in changing the perception that both sides are at fault for legislation progress. Thats all on republicans.
Not throwing any stones, just wondering if there are any ideas on how we could change the perception?
Could we ask or demand McConnell for his ideas on how to move legislation forward? We dont need them to participate, we just beed the no show to he televised.
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)May they be figuratively pummeled to their last dying breaths. That party does not deserve to survive, and I hope this destroys them.