Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Poll: Trump Approval Rating Hits Net Positive As Support For Impeachment Plummets

Poll: Trump Approval Rating Hits Net Positive As Support For Impeachment Plummets

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WILLIAM DAVISREPORTER
President Donald Trump’s approval rating now sits at a net positive as House Democrats move to impeach, a new poll shows.
The president’s approval rating climbed to 48% approval compared to a 47% disapproval, while support for impeachment has plummeted from 48% to 43%, according to a poll published Thursday by Emerson.
The reason for the Trump surge appears to be Independents, who are tiring of the impeachment saga that has brought Washington D.C. to a halt in recent weeks. (RELATED: Impeachment Proceedings Usually Move Swiftly, But Democrats Are Playing It Slow)
The poll showed that 49% of Independent voters now oppose impeachment, with just 34% supporting it. This is a massive change from October, where 48% of Independent voters supported impeachment, while just 39% of those voters opposed it.
Additionally, the poll showed Trump leading Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg on the national stage, with the president in a statistical tie with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. The poll was conducted from November 17-20, and surveyed 1,092 registered voters, with a margin of error of roughly 2.9%.
The stunning poll was published on the same day that the House of Representatives wrapped up two weeks of public impeachment hearings related to Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where Trump urged Zelensky to investigate Ukrainian business associated with the Democratic Party and the Biden family.
This poll stands in contrast to most national polls, which have typically shown the president’s approval rating in the low 40’s. However, other recent polls have shown support for impeachment declining among Independent and swing-state voters. Just 40% of voters in the crucial state of Wisconsin support House Democrats’ impeachment probe, according to a poll published earlier this week by Marquette University Law School.

Poll finds sharp swing in opposition to impeachment among independents

BY JONATHAN EASLEY - 11/21/19 02:43 PM EST 
A new national survey finds independent voters leading a sharp swing in opposition to impeachment, the second major poll to produce those findings this week.
The latest national poll from Emerson College finds 45 percent oppose impeaching President Trump, against 43 percent who support it. That’s a 6-point swing in support from October, when 48 percent of voters supported impeachment and only 44 percent opposed.
More importantly, the poll shows more independents now oppose impeachment than support it, a significant change from Emerson's polling in October. The new poll found 49 percent oppose impeachment compared to 34 percent who support it. In October, 48 percent of independents polled supported impeachment, against 39 percent who opposed.
Since October, Emerson has found Trump’s job approval rating jump by 5 points, from 43 percent to 48 percent.
This is the second poll this week to show voters are increasingly likely to oppose impeachment, despite wall-to-wall media coverage of the House hearings that have produced bombshell testimony about how Trump threatened to withhold financial aid to Ukraine if the country did not open an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, a top contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.
A Marquette University survey of Wisconsin, a battleground state that Trump turned red in 2016 for the first time in decades, found 40 percent think the president should be impeached and removed, against 53 percent who do not think so.
In October, 44 percent favored impeachment and removal and 51 percent opposed.
Only 36 percent of independent respondents in Wisconsin support impeachment and removal.
The Marquette pollster wrote that the new survey “finds consistent, if sometimes modest, shifts in public opinion away from support of impeachment and toward supporting Trump in next year’s presidential election.”
The Marquette survey found Trump leading Biden by 3 points after trailing him by 6 points in October. The president also leads Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by 3 points and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) by 5 points.
The Emerson College poll of 1,092 registered voters was conducted between Nov. 17 and Nov. 20 and has a 2.9 percentage point margin of error. The survey includes 713 voters who were reached by landline and 379 who took part in an online panel.
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