A new national poll indicates that only 8% of Republican voters support President Trump’s accusation and his dismissal.
This is in stark contrast to the 89% of Democrats and 45% of independents polled in an NBC News poll released Thursday. They support the accusation and ouster of the president for encouraging the Capitol storm by Trump supporters and right-wing extremists from last week’s certification by Congress of President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College over the president.
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The poll was conducted on January 10-13, mostly before and slightly after the vote of 232-197 by Wednesday by the House of Representatives to accuse Trump of ‘inciting insurgency’. Ten Republicans voted to accuse the president – they joined all 222 Democrats – with 197 House Republicans voting against accusation, and four GOP lawmakers voting no.
The Senate, which will be controlled by the GOP at the beginning of next week, will not begin an indictment until the day Biden is inaugurated as president, meaning the trial is likely to end only a few weeks after Trump left the White House leaves it. .
President Donald Trump is coming to Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 2021 to speak. (AP Photo / Jacquelyn Martin)
The 8% of Republicans who support the accusation and removal of Trump from office are identical to the 8% of Republicans who said the same thing about the President’s previous accusation by House Democrats over the Ukrainian controversy in an NBC News / Wall Street Journal in December 2019. poll.
About seven out of ten Americans polled in a new ABC News / Washington Post poll say Trump bears at least some responsibility for the Capitol’s storms, and 56% support Democrats’ efforts and a handful GOP lawmakers in Congress to prevent Trump from ever holding re-election to office.
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But only 42% of Republicans believe Trump bears at least some responsibility for the attack, which left five people dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer, and the building was vandalized. And only 12% of Republicans polled in the poll said Congress should remove Trump from office and re-empower him to run for president again.
On this Wednesday, January 6, 2021, file photo, violent protesters storm the Capitol in Washington, DC, Federal prosecutors say a retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol was arrested Sunday, January 10, 2021. , in Texas. (AP Photo / John Minchillo, file)
The president’s approval in the ABC News / Washington Post poll – released Friday and January 10-13 – has dropped to 38%. But among Republicans, it remained a solid 79%, up from 88% in October, the last time ABC News and the Washington Post asked the question.
And six out of ten Republicans say they want the GOP to follow Trump. That’s down from 83% two years ago – when the question was last asked – but it’s still a strong majority of Republican voters.
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A Quinnipiac poll conducted in the three days immediately following the Capitol uprising and announced earlier this week showed that the president’s approval among voters nationwide dropped to 33%, with 11 points over the past month. But it stands at 71% approval among Republicans. That’s a 89% drop in last month’s Quinnipiac poll, but still healthy.
The survey also showed that six out of ten voters nationwide said Trump undermined democracy. But nearly three-quarters of Republicans polled said the president protects democracy.
Trump refused to concede to Biden and repeatedly and falsely claimed that there was “massive voter fraud” in what he called a “rigid” presidential election.
While 93% of Democrats and six out of ten independent voters said they did not believe there was widespread fraud in the November election, nearly three-quarters of Republicans believe there was widespread voter fraud.