Throughout American history, only two presidents have been impeached—the 17th, Andrew Johnson, and the 42nd, Bill Clinton—by the House of Representatives, but neither of them were removed from office by the Senate.
Liberals would like to make President Donald Trump the first, even if he hasn’t committed any “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Left-of-center Politico has been running a presidential impeachment tracking poll throughout the Trump presidency, and this week it hit an all-time high.
The poll’s narrative states:
Forty-three percent of voters want Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, up from 38 percent last week.
“If President Trump was hoping his foreign trip would shift the conversation away from scandals, he may be out of luck,” said Morning Consult Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer Kyle Dropp. “Over the last week, support for beginning impeachment proceedings among voters rose from 38 percent to 43 percent.”
But that’s still less than the 45 percent who don’t want Congress to impeach Trump, down a tick from 46 percent the week before.
The poll also found that the primary motivation for those who wish to see the president impeached is purely political in nature:
Of those who want Congress to move toward impeachment, a 54-percent majority of those believe Trump “has proven he is unfit to serve and should be removed from office, regardless of whether he committed an impeachable offense or not.” Only 43 percent of those seeking impeachment believe Trump has committed an offense that meets the high constitutional standards for removal.
The results underscore the intense partisan divisions following last year’s rancorous election. A wide majority of self-identified Democratic voters, 71 percent, want Congress to impeach Trump. But more than three-quarters of GOP voters, 76 percent, don’t think Congress should begin impeachment proceedings.
The same poll found that the president’s overall approval rating has remained steady at 45 percent. The results, however, reinforce the precarious position the president is in as he continues to work to advance the agenda for which he was elected, and the need for the Body of Christ to pray for our leaders. {eoa}
