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Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Speedy - 01-10-2021
https://www.aol.com/news/majority-americans-want-trump-removed-092450372-201810814.html
January 9, 2021, 3:18 PM
By Chris Kahn
(Reuters) - Fifty-seven percent of Americans want Republican President Donald Trump to be immediately removed from office after he encouraged a protest this week that escalated into a deadly riot inside the U.S. Capitol, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Most of them were Democrats, however, with Republicans apparently much more supportive of Trump serving out the final days of his term, which ends on Jan. 20.
The national public opinion survey, conducted Thursday and Friday, also showed that seven out of 10 of those who voted for Trump in November opposed the action of the hardcore supporters who broke into the Capitol while lawmakers were meeting to certify the election victory of Democrat Joe Biden.
Nearly 70% of Americans surveyed also said they disapprove of Trump's actions in the run-up to Wednesday's assault. At a rally earlier in the day, Trump had exhorted thousands of his followers to march to the Capitol.
The chaos on Capitol Hill, in which a police officer and four others died, has been widely condemned by both Democrats and Republicans.
Democrats in the House of Representatives plan to introduce misconduct charges on Monday that could lead to a second impeachment of Trump, two sources familiar with the matter said.
"If the President does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement. [L1N2JJ0UU]
DIVISIONS
The public's reaction is divided by political party, as it has been on almost every major issue in the Trump era. While almost everyone condemned the violent confrontation, calls for Trump’s ouster came mostly from Democrats.
Altogether, the majority of Americans who said they want Trump to leave office before his term ends includes about nine out of every ten Democrats polled but just two in ten Republicans.
Some 30% said the president should be removed using provisions in the 25th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which allows the vice president and Cabinet to remove the president if he is unable to discharge his official duties.
Another 14% said Congress should impeach and remove Trump from office, and 13% said Trump should simply resign.
Trump, who lost the Nov. 3 election by about seven million votes, called on his supporters on Wednesday to march on Congress, telling them at a rally that “you will never take back our country with weakness.”
A small minority of the American public -- 12% -- said they supported the actions of those people who took part in the riot.
Seventy-nine percent of adults, including two-thirds of Republicans and Trump voters, described the participants as either "criminals" or "fools." Nine percent saw them as “concerned citizens” and 5% called them “patriots.”
The Reuters/Ipsos poll was conducted online, in English, throughout the United States. It gathered responses from 1,005 American adults, including 339 who said they voted for Trump. The results have a credibility interval, a measure of precision, of 4 percentage points.
For more about the poll: https://tmsnrt.rs/3pYTiuD
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Blankity Blank - 01-10-2021
It will be interesting to see how history records the fact that Trump is openly and widely being acknowledged as being mentally unstable, and yet action is not being immediately taken to remove him from office.
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Speedy - 01-10-2021
Blankity Blank wrote:
It will be interesting to see how history records the fact that Trump is openly and widely being acknowledged as being mentally unstable, and yet action is not being immediately taken to remove him from office.
Depends on how far off the tracks he goes. If he launches nukes, no one will much care about history.
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - samintx - 01-10-2021
Wish it were higher. 57% should be 100% but I guess that is minus the millions that voted for him and follow. I keep hoping the friend I lost will email me and say "you were right about Trump after all".
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - RgrF - 01-10-2021
Speedy wrote:
Depends on how far off the tracks he goes. If he launches nukes, no one will much care about history.
I thought Pelosi had intervened with military brass to insure that no launch order will be followed. As I recall, legislative leaders did the same in the final days of the Nixon administration.
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Speedy - 01-10-2021
RgrF wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Depends on how far off the tracks he goes. If he launches nukes, no one will much care about history.
I thought Pelosi had intervened with military brass to insure that no launch order will be followed. As I recall, legislative leaders did the same in the final days of the Nixon administration.
Nope, if Pres. Trump wants to launch, he can. There is nobody to stop him.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pelosi-trump-nuclear-codes/2021/01/08/032d95ac-51e0-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Lew Zealand - 01-10-2021
samintx wrote:
Wish it were higher. 57% should be 100% but I guess that is minus the millions that voted for him and follow. I keep hoping the friend I lost will email me and say "you were right about Trump after all".
Unfortunately that is completely opposite to how human nature works. We dig in our heels and defend our chosen opinions to the bitter end, it doesn't even matter how those opinions were chosen in the first place, completely arbitrarily or not. No, not everyone but most people in most situations.
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Speedy - 01-10-2021
P.s.: There was a reason Pres. Trump recently replaced the top leaders at the Pentagon. We don’t yet know why.
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - testcase - 01-10-2021
Figures lie and liars figure.
Sounds like the Dems / Libs are sore winners.
Should the "wet dream" the Dems / Libs have come to pass, I see it causing ALL SORTS of unintended / unexpected consequences down the road.
NO I am NOT (nor have ever been) a "fan" of Trump :oldfogey:
Re: Majority of Americans want Trump removed immediately after U.S. Capitol violence: Reuters/Ipsos poll - Acer - 01-10-2021
"Dems are sore winners."
I disagree.