CNN poll: 51% say Senate should remove Trump from office
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About half of Americans say the Senate should vote to convict President Donald Trump and remove him from office in the upcoming impeachment trial (51 per cent), according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, while 45 per cent say the Senate should vote against conviction and removal.
Nearly seven in 10 (69 per cent) say that upcoming trial should feature testimony from new witnesses who did not testify in the House impeachment inquiry. And as Democrats in the Senate seek to persuade at least four Republican senators to join them on votes over allowing witnesses in the trial, the Republican rank and file are divided on the question: 48 per cent say they want new witnesses, while 44 per cent say they do not.
The poll is the first major national telephone poll since the articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate, formally launching Trump’s trial there. They are also the first such poll results since Soviet-born businessman Lev Parnas, an associate of Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, publicly implicated the President in the Ukrainian pressure campaign during a series of television interviews.
The new poll also finds majorities of Americans view each of the charges on which Trump will face trial as true: 58 per cent say Trump abused the power of the presidency to obtain an improper personal political benefit and 57 per cent say it is true that he obstructed the House of Representatives in its impeachment inquiry. – CNN Report
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