55% support Trump's removal in a new poll. No wonder Mitch is getting wobbly.
Trump's crude insults over the Christmas holiday don't seem to have made him any more popular. Imagine that:
Fifty-five per cent of those asked said they were in favour of the US president’s conviction by the Senate, a figure which has shot up from 48 per cent the week before.
Meanwhile, the number of people against Mr Trump’s removal has dropped to an all-time low, according to the MSN poll.
On Christmas Day, 40 per cent were opposed to the Senate voting to convict the president, who has been impeached over his dealings with Ukraine and an alleged subsequent attempt to obstruct congress.
The gap between the two views has become much wider since last week, when there was little to divide them (48 per cent in favour of Mr Trump's removal, 47 per cent against).
The percentage of respondents who neither supported nor opposed conviction also grew.
David Rothschild, an economist at Microsoft Research, said the numbers of people shifting from opposition to removal to "don't know" was significant. “When you follow polling daily, you learn people rarely make big jumps from Opposition to Support,” he said.
He was impeached because he bribed the Ukrainian president to smear his political rivals and exonerate Russia for 2016. But his ongoing juvenile tantrum ever since then probably hasn't brought anyone who was undecided to his side.
Competent adults who have nothing to hide and are assured of their innocence don't act this way:
I don't think that reassures very many people that this person has control of himself, do you? And that's just today. He's been doing this non-stop since the day he was impeached.
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