Trump Twists Impeachment Polls
A number of national polls show more Americans want President Donald Trump impeached and removed from office than those who don’t. In swing states, however, a majority opposes removing Trump from office via impeachment, even as a majority supports moving forward with the impeachment inquiry.
Those are the polling statistics that Trump twisted over the weekend when he accused the media of “reading the wrong polls” and said that “people don’t want anything to do with impeachment.”
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According to a New York Times/Siena College poll released on Oct. 30, majorities in six battleground states — Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — oppose impeaching and removing Trump (52%-44%). (The battleground poll has a margin of error of 1.7 percentage points.) A Trump campaign official seized on those findings, telling The Hill that while large percentages in Democratic states like New York and California support impeachment, “in these states where the election is really going to be fought, we’re seeing that voters oppose impeachment, and there’s an intensity to that opposition.”
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Notably, though, that same poll shows that while a majority does not support removing Trump via impeachment, about the same percentage, 51%, supports the impeachment inquiry being conducted by the House (44% oppose it). That contradicts Trump’s claim that most “don’t want to hear about it” and don’t want to “talk about it.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/trump-twists-impeachment-polls/ar-AAJTLVg?li=BBnb7Kz
