When your friends at Fox can't skew the numbers, it's bigly bad:
More than half of US voters want President Donald Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll out on Wednesday.
The poll marks the fourth in two days
that showed public opinion is shifting on the impeachment inquiry. A
formal impeachment inquiry, launched by the House last month, centers on
Trump's July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,
after a whistleblower filed a complaint about the call. A transcript of
the conversation released by the White House shows Trump repeatedly
pushed Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his
son, Hunter. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe or Hunter
Biden in Ukraine.
The Fox News poll found 51% of
registered voters want Trump impeached and removed from office and
another 4% want the President impeached but not removed from office.
Forty percent of respondents were opposed to impeachment altogether.
The other polls noted (
Quinnipiac, WaPo/Schar School, and NBC/WSJ) all found solid and growing support for the impeachment inquiry and for impeachment. This, before the country hears whistleblower testimony as well as depositions from others with knowledge of Putin- Erdogan puppet
Donald "Rump" Trump's abuses of power, obstruction, and betrayal of his oath of office. If his increasingly unhinged actions to date are any guide, expect further irrational behavior if the dam breaks and his position becomes more untenable.
Meanwhile, Trump is so unnerved by the fast- shifting political terrain that he's been calling
Moscow Mitch McConnell as much as three times a day to check on and warn him about any defections in the ranks of the rotted- out Republican Senate. We're not convinced there are 20 of those spineless weasels that would ever vote for removal, but having even a few defections would greatly enhance the political impact.
UPDATE: As you might expect, the poll from Rump's own GOP-TV
has sent him into a mini- Twitter rage -- because he has nothing more important to do.
