4 in 10 Americans Want Trump Impeached: Poll
A new Monmouth poll has some troubling news for Donald Trump – a significant percentage of Americans want him to be impeached.
The poll found that 41 percent of Americans think Donald Trump should be impeached, with 53 percent disagreeing.
Donald Trump’s job approval rating, according to Monmouth, is just 39 percent.
At the same time a majority of Americans, 52 percent, disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president.
More Americans want Trump impeached than wanted Nixon impeached at beginning of Watergate
At the beginning of the Watergate scandal, only 24 percent of Americans wanted Nixon impeached. According to the Monmouth poll, significantly more people want Trump impeached than Nixon.
“Even though Trump’s approval rating is similar to Nixon’s, more Americans support impeachment today than did in 1973. That’s partly due to the current epidemic of hyper-partisanship that was simply not prevalent forty years ago,” the poster noted
Other key numbers from the poll:
- Nearly two-thirds of the public believes the Russian government either definitely (36%) or probably (29%) tried to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
- 54 percent of Americans are concerned that Trump may be too friendly toward Russia.
- 62 percent of Americans say the special counsel investigation into Russian interference should continue while 33% say it should be brought to an end.
About the poll: The Monmouth University Poll was conducted by telephone from July 13 to 16, 2017 with 800 adults in the United States. The results in this release have a margin of error of +/- 3.5 percent. The poll was conducted by the Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, NJ.
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