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| Trump impeachment: public support grows as scandal widens – live news | Trump impeachment: public support grows as scandal widens – live news |
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| Trump is tweeting | |
| Here’s the president’s big picture message this morning. | |
| pic.twitter.com/dOta1Z9gtZ | |
| He doesn’t detail exactly what this map is supposed to depict, though the illustration of suggested voter support for the Republican couldn’t be clearer. Other tweets from the President of the United States this morning continue down his line of argument that the Ukraine scandal and impeachment inquiry are a Democratic party and mainstream media “hoax”. | |
| I refer you back to the whistleblower complaint in full and the full memo of the phone call Trump had with the Ukrainian president in July, which speak for themselves without any filtration/amplification on Capitol Hill or by the media. | |
| Public support for impeachment rising - but still below 50% | |
| The number of Americans who believe Donald Trump should be impeached rose by eight percentage points over the past week as more people learned about allegations that Trump pressured Ukraine to smear his top Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. | |
| The September 26-30 opinion poll found that 45% of adults believe Trump “should be impeached,” compared with 37% in a similar poll that ran last week, Reuters writes. | |
| So impeachment is clearly not (yet?) supported by a majority of the public, but it is the predominant view, as 41% said that Trump should not be impeached and 15% said they “don’t know.” | |
| The Reuters/Ipsos poll followed a swath of other results that showed similar trends. | |
| Yesterday, one poll, conducted by Quinnipiac University over the weekend, found a 20-point swing in the last five days in support for Trump’s impeachment. Americans are now split 47-47 on the question of impeachment, the poll found, compared with 37% for impeachment and 57% opposition measured by the poll on 25 September. | |
| Another poll, conducted by CNN/SSRS, also found that 47% of Americans support impeaching Trump, up 6 points from when the question was asked in May. | |
| The odds of Trump’s impeachment hit a new high of 71% in online betting markets, meanwhile, my colleague Tom McCarthy wrote last night. | |
| It’s hardly a surprise that there is a huge partisan element to public support or opposition. Reuters further reports from its latest poll that, among Democrats, 74% said Trump, a Republican president, should be impeached. That’s up 8 points over the past week, while only 13% of Republicans said they supported impeachment, but that had risen by three points. The level was unchanged among independents at 37%. | |
| Full Reuters/Ipsos poll results: tmsnrt.rs/2n3AYWx | |
| Glance-back: the American public has been increasingly focused on the question of impeachment following a whistleblower complaint about a July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy. | |
| These latest polls were taken before last night’s reports that drew secretary of state Mike Pompeo and attorney general Bill Barr further into the scandal. | |
| Good morning, US politics watchers: here we go with another day of tumult. What a week, and it’s only Tuesday. Here’s what’s coming up today: | Good morning, US politics watchers: here we go with another day of tumult. What a week, and it’s only Tuesday. Here’s what’s coming up today: |
| Public support for impeaching the president is gradually building, as senior figures in his administration get drawn into the Donald Trump-Ukraine scandal. There’s new polling data out – and Trump has some fresh pushback. | Public support for impeaching the president is gradually building, as senior figures in his administration get drawn into the Donald Trump-Ukraine scandal. There’s new polling data out – and Trump has some fresh pushback. |
| Third quarter fundraising figures are expected for the 2020 Democratic candidates, as most, but not all, advance to the next debate, in Ohio mid-month. Who’s up, who’s down – and who might be out very soon? | Third quarter fundraising figures are expected for the 2020 Democratic candidates, as most, but not all, advance to the next debate, in Ohio mid-month. Who’s up, who’s down – and who might be out very soon? |
| Republican congressman Chris Collins is expected to plead guilty in a New York court this morning to insider trader charges. He resigned yesterday, just another statistic in a GOP exodus from Capitol Hill. | Republican congressman Chris Collins is expected to plead guilty in a New York court this morning to insider trader charges. He resigned yesterday, just another statistic in a GOP exodus from Capitol Hill. |
| There will be a lot more action. Stay tuned. | There will be a lot more action. Stay tuned. |