Whether you believe the President is innocent or guilty of an impeachable offense most likely depends on where you sit politically.
However, recently 6-national polls showed that a majority of the public backs a formal impeachment inquiry. The most recent are NBC/WSJ with 55% voting for an impeachment inquiry and 39% opposed — a Quinnipiac poll shows a similar pattern with 53% in favor of a formal impeachment inquiry and 43% opposed — and finally a WaPo/Schar poll showing 58% for and 38% against.
In fact, many Conservatives believe a formal impeachment inquiry would actually benefit the President.
He would finally have the legal right to defend himself, he would be able to call witnesses, cross-examine the so-called whistleblower, have access to all documents that are currently being hidden from public view by Adam Schiff and basically face his accusers head-on. More importantly he would dismiss the current smear campaign being conducted by a partisan hack, cherry-picking snippets of information and releasing it to the media without any regard to the overall context.
Thus creating a false narrative of what was actually said by witnesses being interrogated.
A decision on whether to call for a formal impeachment inquiry may be only a few days away when Pelosi convenes a conference call with House Democrats at the end of the week.
However senior Democrat Gerald Connolly of Virginia has misgivings regarding a formal vote, citing unintended consequences of actually empowering the White House to muster a vagarious legal defense, while public opinion is currently working in their favor.
“Caving to their phony demands could — in an odd way — have unintended consequences of actually empowering their various arguments.”
However those poll numbers are misleading and Democrats had better be careful in not overplaying their hand, as they usually do, in that despite a shift towards an impeachment inquiry, the public expects fair-play.
The growing poll numbers favoring an impeachment inquiry is actually a double-edged-sword for Speaker Pelosi. The public assumes that the Speaker will call for a formal House vote, anything less will be seen as another phony witch hunt.
However, on the distant horizon, the potentially-explosive Horowitz report is scheduled to be released in about two weeks, followed by John Durham’s investigation into the origins of the 2016 counterintelligence investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign.
According to Fox News, the U.S. attorney has expanded his investigation requested more manpower and resources. Senior administration officials said the timeline has grown from the beginning of President Trump’s campaign for the White House through the election and now has included a post-election timeline up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.
Even more, concerning for Democrats is the fact that both Attorney General Bill Barr and Durham traveled to Italy recently following-up on additional leads after visiting both the U.K. and Australia.
If either or both of these inquiries prove fruitful and exposes serious wrongdoing among the Obama disciples, that could be a game-changer in terms of the national mood heading into 2020.
Actually Trump has been pushing for an official inquiry,I don’t think he fears the democrats because he knows he’s not guilty of these charges,plus it will never get through the Senate,there maybe a few republicans who will support impeachment,but it would take at least twenty to get the job done,and who ever of the republicans support the democrats they should be voted out of office next November,if the democrats ever get in control fully,we will never see another republican in office for years to come,do we want to be ruled over by these wicked people,I don’t think so.
As long as the democrats can stay on the fence, riding their popular opinion horse, they will do so. In a sense, I too hope they vote for a trial so President Trump, et al can expose the dirty tricks employed by the democrats in toto.
A majority support an impeachment inquiry? I don’t believe that many American citizens are that dumb!
I agree that there should be a formal impeachment inquiry AND that every member of the House should be held to the same standard. I believe Trump will be cleared and every member of the House will be out of a job, and more than a few will be in prison.
I don’t believe your pole. This impeachment is not only against the president but affects all America. The Democrats should be facing treason charges fir their continued interfering with every act of the president who, if his hands are tied helps our enemies. We need a tight border and all the other things Trump is accomplishing in spite of their negative aggression. No thinking American would be in favor of any Democratic leadership that wants to destroy America, allowing open borders and giving unearned rights using up taxpayers monies. And their “green deals” are stupid!!
I do not believe your pole!!
I agree that there should be a formal impeachment inquiry AND that every member of the House should be held to the same standard. I believe Trump will be cleared and every member of the House will be out of a job, and more than a few will be in prison.
I am not in favor of an inquiry regardless whether or not it helps Trump. It is pure crap and has been the talk of D.C. for three years now. A waste of time and taxpayer money when there are so many more important issues to face. The polls are pure crap anyways.
I agree. Democrats crazy.
Abraham Lincoln famously said, ““If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.”
Although Lincoln’s enemies were as tenacious as those President Trump faces, at least Lincoln did not have to deal with the electronic dissemination of a tsunami of lies, disinformation, and malicious innuendo that is spread worldwide in the space of a heartbeat.
The Democrats are not outraged by the conduct of President Trump. They are outraged that he attained the office at all. They are not in pursuit of him because of his commission of an impeachable offense. They are in pursuit of an impeachable offense that they can tag him with in the hope that they can then burn him at the political stake. Their crusade is an outrage and an offense against reason, honor, and justice.
They have spent untold millions on this foolish and treacherous pursuit and have abandoned the public interest. They are unworthy of remaining in office. Let this idiocy come to an end, so we can get on with the necessary work that cries to be done.
If the LOONY LEFT does get their hearing it will just be another EMBARASSMENT for them, once again, and a total waste of our tax dollars–millions and millions of our tax dollars!!!
Like the Mueller witch hunt and all of the other Democrat stone walling, just because they can’t seem to understand that they lost the election in 2016!!
That SO many Americans are now in favor of impeachment inquiry speaks VOLUMES about the paucity of education in our public school system. Anyone familiar in the least with the US Constitution is aware NO impeachable events have occurred. Just ask yourself, “Where is the crime?” We have just finished more than 2 years of “impeachment 1” in the Mueller investigation. How many bites at the apple to Dems want? There is an election in just over a year, why not let the American people decide? Oh, that’s right, YOU are still lamenting the decision of the people from 2016.
GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP! Almighty God placed Donald Trump in the White House for “such a time as this”! America needs a STRONG, INDEPENDENT MAN that won’t back down when he stands for what’s right for this country! Wake up America! I’m tired of all of these “polls” that support “impeachment” or “impeachment inquiries”! I’ve never been “polled” have any of ya’ll? this is the DEVIL working overtime to tear down America! Please stand up & let your voice be heard to support our President! God bless America!
“JESUS, please wake us up & open our eyes & ears to what’s happening to our great country! draw us to You please Lord JESUS & let us remember that You, Lord God are the “way maker”! Hallelujah! Praise be to Almighty God! America loves You, JESUS! Amen!”
All polls were done by socialist Democrat party. A Democrat came out and said they are rigging the polling. Not one off These polls I was ask about. Lies. Sick of the lying games of the fascist nazi regime democrats.
Conservatives Do NOT Support Impeachment, Investigate The DNC/HillaryClinton, FBI,State Dept,Ect To Find The Real Crimes Under The Obama Years !
That is because the polls were rigged and because the democrat controlled media has not told the public that this is just a Ukraine Hoax and the Guilty party are the democrats and the Deep State
The Republicans have to grow some stones and quit letting the Democrats push them around and to Intimidate them.You already know that this just another ploy to get rid of President Trump.The Government is a business and the President is trying to run it like it’s supposed to be.The problem is that the Deep State members don’t like losing there Power.
THIS IS ALL FAKE NEWS ! MOST AMERICANS ARE FOR A NON-IMPEACHMENT THAT SAID IT’S 58 % AGAINST IMPEACHMENT AND 44 % FOR IMPEACHMENT !!! THE ONLY ONE’S THAT WANT A IMPEACHMENT IS THE DERANGED AND DEPLORABLE IN THE HOUSE AND SENATE. AND THEY ARE NOT GOING TO GET A IMPEACHMENT WITHOUT A VOTE ! AND THEY DON’T HAVE ENOUGH VOTES TO MAKE IT WORK. BUT SAID SADLY ENOUGH THERE MAYBE A RHINO IN THE BUNCH THAT WILL VOTE FOR IT. BUT IF THE REPUBLICAN’S THAT SUPPORT PRESIDENT TRUMP IT WILL NEVER EVER EVER HAPPEN..
Agree!
Wow, 6 polls! I never was asked to answer any of these polls, bet millions of other weren’t aware of them either!
This ‘poll” is the most 1 sided unfair poll I’ve heard of lately. No wonder why Trump calls the media fake news. All 3 of the newspapers you reference are all 3 left leaning socialists papers. This article is as fake as you are. You should all be hung for TREASON against our great country. Go suck an egg. MAGA TRUMP.
I don’t believe most Americans want an impeachment inquiry! I believe this is another lie from the Democrats! Democrats and Obama have been trying to get rid of Trump from the beginning and we are sick of it! They want to destroy America!
Bullshit… The only removals should be Democrats from Congress and their Senators.
This sight is no better than all the other bias sights. I’ll never believe anything in this article. Only ones polled are the libtards that hate Trump. Enough of the bullshit. I don’t want anymore to do with survivalupdate.
Yes an impeachment inquiry cshould be conducted, not of President Trump, although I do not agree with many of his actions, but of the US Congress, which seems to want to Norgate the 2016 election by fair means or foul, and since they have been unable to find fair means, they are using every “cloudy” excuse they can think up.
And this is why pelosi will not hold the vote for impeachment. She does not want the president to be able to defend himself and issue subpoenas and question their witnesses etc. also the Dems who vote for impeachment in jurisdictions that are red face throwback from their constituents who do not want the president impeached. This is a sham and it is to detract from the major stories about to break from the AG Barr investigation into the Obama administration and spying on Trump and his campaign and trying to unseat the president and or to stop him from winning in 2016 and wiping out all of Obama’s mistakes.
You can disregard the poll associated with NBC. As for the others, did they reflect the population? We know a Fox News poll overweighted Democrats. How about these polls? I think that the nonstop and intense/frenzied anti-Trump message in the media is worth at least 15 points.
people, we need to get used to the fact that fox news is gone. Disney now owns fox news. and there is no institution further left than Disney. check for yourself.