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struggle4progress

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Mon Jun 5, 2017, 08:05 PM Jun 2017

More Americans want him impeached than approve of him

Michael Martin
Published : June 05, 2017

... "Virtually every single poll tracking President Donald Trump's approval rating showed the figure plummeting Monday morning, well below the margin of error compared to the rising level of support for impeachment," reports Newsweek today. According to a new Gallup poll, the president's approval rating declined from 42 percent to 36 percent over the weekend. That is one point away from his all-time low in March. At the same time, a Politico/Morning Consult poll shows that 43 percent of Americans support impeachment.

Predictably, 71 percent of Democrats support impeachment and 76 percent of Republicans do not.

Every major tracking poll shows the president's approval rating declining over the weekend, including right-leaning pollsters like Rasmussen Reports, which shows the president's disapproval rating at 54 percent.

The polls reflected Trump's performance at the G7 and NATO summit, in which he did not state an American commitment to Article 5's common-defense policy. It also followed his pullout from the Paris Climate Accord, which drew sharp rebuke from world leaders, including French president Emmanuel Macron, who launched a viral video pledging to "Make the World Great Again" ...


http://www.metro.us/president-trump/more-americans-want-trump-impeached-approve-him

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