Just over half of voters want President Trump impeached and removed from office, according to a Fox News Poll released Wednesday.
A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether. In July, 42 percent favored impeachment and removal, while 5 percent said impeach but don’t remove him, and 45 percent opposed impeachment.
Since July, support for impeachment increased among voters of all stripes: up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans, and 3 among independents. Support also went up among some of Trump’s key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10).
President Donald Trump blasted the conservative cable network Fox News on Thursday after it reported that its new poll on impeachment found a majority of respondents favoring his removal from office.
“Whoever their Pollster is, they suck,” Trump lashed out on Twitter, a day after the Fox poll showed that a new high of 51 percent of voters want Trump both impeached and removed from office and 40 percent opposed impeachment.
A Fox poll in July found that 42% favored Trump’s impeachment and removal, while 45% opposed impeachment.
Fox News’s latest poll shows a stronger level of support for Trump’s removal than two other recent polls, each of which found support for impeachment at below 50% of respondents.
Trump claimed that ever since he announced his candidacy for president “I have NEVER had a good @FoxNews Poll.” He also said the network “is also much different than it used to be in the good old days.”
Fox News, Trump said, “doesn’t deliver for US anymore.”
It was unclear whether the president was referring to himself with “US,” or to the United States.
Shortly after those tweets, Trump posted another tweet that praised One America News Network — a competing conservative cable network — for its “fair coverage and brilliant reporting.”
A slim majority of Americans now approve of the Democratic House-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds.
Fifty-two percent say they approve of the inquiry, while 43% disapprove. That's a slight increase in support from two weeks ago, when 49% approved and 46% disapproved. The numbers are in line with other polls that have been released this week also showing majority support or an increase in support for the inquiry.
The uptick in support in the NPR poll comes mostly from a swing with independents. In late September, more independents disapproved of the inquiry than approved, by a 50-44% margin. Now, in a reversal, more independents approve of the inquiry than disapprove, by a 54-41% margin, a net change of 19 points.
