Quinnipiac: Majority says Trump should resign or be removed. Job approval down to 33% from 44%.

[highplainsdem]

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3686

A majority of voters, 56 percent, say they hold President Trump responsible for the storming of the U.S. Capitol, while 42 percent say they do not hold him responsible.

A slight majority, 52 - 45 percent, say President Trump should be removed from office. Voters also say 53 - 43 percent that he should resign as president.

"A majority of Americans hold President Trump responsible for the chaos at the Capitol, and a slight majority believe that he should be removed from office," added Malloy.

President Trump has a negative 33 - 60 percent job approval rating, which is a substantial drop from the negative 44 - 51 percent rating he received in December of 2020.

-snip-

Eight in 10 voters (80 percent) say the individuals who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th were undermining democracy. Ten percent say they were protecting democracy and another 10 percent are unsure. Democrats say 95 - 3 percent, independents say 80 - 9 percent, and Republicans say 70 - 17 percent that they were undermining democracy.

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It's pathetic that even 17% of Republicans don't feel Trump's domestic terrorists were undermining democracy.

But that's still an improvement over a poll a few days ago that purportedly found that about half of Republican voters didn't disapprove of storming the Capitol.

There was even a YouGov poll done the evening of the 6th, hours after the insurrection, that showed nearly 70% of Republicans did NOT think that storming the Capitol was a thread to democracy.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll

So there has been a significant change in how most Republicans feel about what happened.

Editing to note that the YouGov poll is the one that found that 45% of Republicans supported the storming of the Capitol.

[still_one]

1. That makes sense verses the 45% we have recently seen

[highplainsdem]

2. The YouGov poll that I link to at the end of the OP, the poll done the evening of the 6th, is the

one that found 45% of Republicans supporting what happened at the Capitol.

[still_one]

7. Thanks

[marybourg]

3. Getting to the approval number below which even publicans should be able

to vote to impeach. Below 33% approval rate, courage should appear.

[twodogsbarking]

4. I could kill hundreds of thousands of Americans

and people would still vote for me.

[Dawson Leery]

5. 40% of Americans support underminding their country.

This is a true crisis.

[David__77]

6. I think that non-Trumpist Republicans would be foolish not to move forward.

...

[crickets]

8. Finally, his approval rating has dropped.

It's astounding that this is what it took. If things keep going the way they are, it will continue to go down.

[yaesu]

9. on a historical perspective

Gallup Historical Presidential Job Approval Statistics, Low individual measurements

Harry Truman February 1952 22%

Richard Nixon July 1974 and Aug. 1974 24%

George W. Bush October 2008 25%

Jimmy Carter June 1979 28%

George H.W. Bush July 1992 29%

Donnie tRump January 2021 33%

Lyndon Johnson August 1968 35%

Ronald Reagan January 1983 35%

Bill Clinton June 1993 37%

Barack Obama Aug. 2011, Oct. 2011 and Sept. 2014 38%


it would seem that America has become accustomed to really bad behavior, shell shock?

[JI7]

12. I think a big difference is the cult following Trump has

The numbers would be lower for just about anyone else in either party.

[SCantiGOP]

10. It is hard to believe

That one of every 10 of my fellow citizens could say that the rioters were “protecting democracy.”
Just hard to understand.

[ailsagirl]

11. It's disturbing that it's even that high

[Jetheels]

13. Maybe it will keep falling

Since he doesn’t have Twitter and rallies to work his buffoonery.

[Demovictory9]

14. Kick