After daring to invite Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and ex-FBI Director James Comey on its morning program, President Donald Trump’s favorite network gave him another black eye on Sunday.
A new Fox News poll shows that 50 percent of registered voters believe Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office, while 46 percent said he shouldn’t. Of that 46 percent, nine percent said Trump should be impeached but not removed.
Trump, who threw a fit on Saturday over Fox’s decision to have Schiff and Comey on Chris Wallace’s morning show, had a similarly sour response to the unflattering numbers.
“The @foxnewPolls [sic], always inaccurate, are heavily weighted toward Dems,” Trump tweeted. “So ridiculous – same thing happened in 2016. They got it all wrong. Get a new pollster!”
The @foxnewPolls, always inaccurate, are heavily weighted toward Dems. So ridiculous – same thing happened in 2016. They got it all wrong. Get a new pollster!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 15, 2019
Fox surveyed 1,000 registered voters nationwide from December 8 to 11. The poll’s margin of error is +/- three points.
The House is slated to vote on its two articles of impeachment this week before handing off the rest of the process to the Senate.
I disagree:
I want Trump Impeached, Removed and Imprisoned
As more people wake up from what’s not even hibernation time yet, the numbers are bound to go up. The Rethugs have nothing except for screaming incoherently about things they make up.
The facts are with the Dems.
I’m betting the GOP is in a swelling panic over the treasonous corner they’ve painted themselves into.
Party over Country ain’t working…
I’d add “emasculated” with extreme prejudice…
I wrote about this on another thread, but I do think this Fox poll is the capstone to document how we’ve moved impeachment as a party and persuaded the American people. 54-41 in favor of impeachment; 50-46 in favor of removal. The average across all polls since Pelosi’s formal opening of the inquiry is 48-43. Since the hearings, it’s 49-43.
No matter how the question has been phrased: ‘impeachment inquiry’ v. ‘impeachment’ v. ‘impeach/remove’, the Dems have moved polling on each of those questions from the mid-30s into the 50s over the past 6 months. Impeachment, in at least 1 form, has been net positive for at least 4 months. That is unprecedented in US history and is all the more impressive given that we have a terrible national media that are unable to grasp the gravity of the moment. This is an example of the Dems moving the Overton Window in real time. This should give all Dems hope that we can destroy these GOP clowns in next year’s elections if we as voters remain as focused as the House Dems have been.