Republicans seem to think what Trump did was wrong. They just don't believe he did it.
The impeachment polls don't seem to be going President Trump's way, especially among key groups like women, college-educated white voters, and independents, Politico reports. A USA Today/Ipsos poll conducted Tuesday and Wednesday and released Thursday, for example, shows Americans support the House voting to impeach Trump by a 45 percent to 38 percent margin, and they want the Senate to convict and remove him from office, 44 percent to 35 percent. FiveThirtyEight launched an impeachment poll tracker that, as of Thursday, has support for impeachment up 46.7 percent to 45.1 percent.
There's a large partisan spread in the polling — only 12 percent of Republicans back impeachment, according to FiveThirtyEight's composite. But it doesn't appear that Republicans actually think what Trump did was okay. In the USA Today/Ipsos poll, 17 percent of Republicans support impeachment but 30 percent of Republicans say the president asking Ukraine to look into Biden's behavior would be an abuse of power. Furthermore, 80 percent of Republicans agreed that presidents are subject to the same laws as all other citizens.
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"At the very least, it is clear from the readout that Trump discussed investigating Biden during the call," said Monmouth's Patrick Murray. That so many Republicans don't seem to know that, he told Politico, "told us how powerful partisan filters can be for just interpreting obvious facts."
The USA Today/Ipsos poll was conducted online among 1,006 adults and has a credibility interval of ±3.5 percentage points. Monmouth conducted its poll Sept. 23-29 among 1,161 adults, and its margin of error is ±2.9 points for the entire sample.
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