No, the new CNN poll is not good news for Donald Trump on impeachment

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(CNN) - A new CNN poll shows that half the country believes that President Donald Trump should be not only impeached by the House, but also removed from office by the Senate.

That result is being spun in some corners of the internet as great news for Trump, because that 50% number is unchanged from a CNN poll in mid-October, the conclusion being that the last 10 days of public impeachment hearings have not convinced more of the public that the President needs to go.

Except that we are missing the forest for the trees here: A majority of the country believes the current President of the United States should be impeached and removed from office!

A quick check of history shows how strange that is.
The peak of support for the impeachment and removal of then-President Bill Clinton in 1998 was 29% in CNN polling. That's the highest that number ever went, despite the fact that the House Republican majority did vote to impeach late that year!

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/26/politics/trump-cnn-impeachment-poll/index.html

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The US corporate owned media prefers simple narratives.

And with more hearings, that number could rise.

More importantly, this does not look good for Trump in 2020.