Fox Poll: 50 Percent Want Trump Removed

When a poll commissioned by the Official State Network gives you these results --



-- you may not be "winning."  Here's a breakdown of those numbers:

On impeachment, by a 50-44 percent margin, voters think the Senate should vote to convict Trump and remove him from office.  Most Democrats say remove (81 percent) and most Republicans disagree (84 percent).  Among independents, more say Trump should be removed by a 19-point margin (53-34 percent).  (our emphasis)

The poll was taken January 19-22, which is before House Democrats presented their case to the Senate.  The numbers comport with a CNN poll from about a week earlier.

We await a Trump tweetstorm questioning whether Fox "News" should remain the Official State Network since they couldn't be trusted to skew the poll in his favor.

The Will Of The American People (UPDATED)

The impeachment trial of malignant moron Donald "Rump" Trump begins today at 9 a.m. EST. Here is "the will of the American people", in case anyone is wondering:

About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51%), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while 45% say the Senate should vote against conviction and removal.

Nearly seven in 10 (69%) say that upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry. And as Democrats in the Senate seek to persuade at least four Republican senators to join them on votes over allowing witnesses in the trial, the Republican rank and file are divided on the question: 48% say they want new witnesses, while 44% say they do not.  [snip]

The new poll also finds majorities of Americans view each of the charges on which Trump will face trial as true: 58% say Trump abused the power of the presidency to obtain an improper personal political benefit and 57% say it is true that he obstructed the House of Representatives in its impeachment inquiry.  (our emphasis)

Remember this as you witness Rump and his rotted- out Republican co- conspirators in the Senate whining about "the will of the people," or how impeachment is "overturning the 2016 election results," or how Trump did nothing to warrant removal.

Remember this, especially, when you see how the trial is conducted under #Midnight Mitch's rules forcing Democrats to conduct their arguments in the wee hours of Wednesday and Thursday, and keeping a vote on witnesses and document disclosure in abeyance until after the start of the trial.  Get ready for the whitewash.

UPDATE:  #Midnight Mitch has since backed off holding the arguments over a two- day period, extending it to three days and a total of 24 hours for each side (making the arguments less likely to happen in the wee hours;  he also will admit the House's impeachment record into evidence immediately without requiring a vote.  Still the same as far as witnesses and documentation.

Poll: 55 Percent Support Removing Trump

The MSN daily tracking poll as of today shows the highest percentage yet favoring removal of malicious moron Donald "Impeachable Me" Trump from office:  55 percent (click on image to enlarge):



Note the dramatic swing on or about December 19 in favor of removal.  We wonder what happened on or about that date...  oh, right, the shitgibbon was impeached by the Constitution- supporting Democrats in the House of Representatives.  Impeachment was no longer a gleam in our eyes; it was now just over 8 pages of clearly argued rationale organized into two Articles of Impeachment.

What else might be responsible for the shift over the past week?  We think it might be Republican Senate leader Moscow Mitch McConnell's pronouncement that the shitgibbon would be quickly acquitted in a kangaroo court made up of his fellow rotted- out Republican lickspittles.  Apparently, that isn't going over so well with more and more of the American people.  Even the most casual neutral observer must be thinking: "If Trump's innocent why don't they want to have witnesses and documents to prove it?  What are they hiding?  Why the bum rush?"

Speaker Pelosi and Democrats are in control and gaining public support, regardless of Republican spin to the contrary and the dutiful stenographers in the media who report that spin as fact. This is the "will of the American people," that you so hear often twisted into a Trump- favorable narrative.  This is the peril facing Trump and Republicans, not Democrats, heading into 2020.

Tweets Of The Day -- Reality Check

CNN poll today had support for removing Trump still at an all time high.

Morning Consult poll had higher support for removing Trump than their last.

The polls aren't saying what Trump wants you to think they're saying. https://t.co/SAu2PN01WQ

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) November 27, 2019

Support for impeachment ticking up again. There goes the lazy narratives. pic.twitter.com/eYMwrVikkJ

— Schooley (@Rschooley) November 26, 2019