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âThe world is laughing at us,â he would say on the campaign trail, referring to the policies of then-President Barack Obama.
âWe donât want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore,â Trump said last June âAnd they wonât be. They wonât be.â
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That includes one third of Republicans.
And yetâŚ
OT but Stone in jail yet?
âMajority of Voters Thinks Trump Has Committed Crimesâ.
FIFY
(Get a frigginâ copy editor, Josh)
This is the game changer weâve been looking for. Not the poll per se, but the political environment which shaped some of the impressions found in this poll.
Youâve got a lot of WWC believing Cohen. Itâs in the upper 30s. The Dems have changed the game and have taken Trumpâs âno collusionâ microphone toy away. This is about investigating a criminal enterprise for all of its criminal behavior in an environment in which 64% of Americans believe Trump committed crimes before he took office, and itâs basically even on whether he committed crimes while in office. Russia matters are not necessary, sufficient or even required to impeach Trump (but make no mistake, thereâs a lot of Russia stuff in what Cohen provided and in what Schiff, Nadler and Cummings are investigating).
Weâre in the Watergate zone now. Mueller/SDNY have a lot of insurance and room to work. There will be a flood of indictments from Mueller/SDNY and a flood of revelations and criminal referrals from the House of Representatives.
So do the majority of his family members, friends, colleagues, business associates, subcontractors and GOP Congress-people. They are merely too cowed by fear, NDAs, and conspiratorial guilt to admit it for now.
Current Occupant should be looking over both shoulders as of right nowâŚ
This just in to our newsroom: Most Americans think the world is round!
Simultaneously, I hope.
And Gym Jordan says he doesnât think Trump has even told a lie.
When Jordan turns, that will be the end of the game (or wrestling match).
Makes me a little sad that his approval number is higher than the belief he is not a criminal. So a group of people approve a criminal.
I would be interested in the base line from prior Q-Polls (Iâll see if I can look it up) but the results are what I would have expected. (1) Cohen - with coverage which reached some folks who had tuned out the ârussia stuffâ - moved the needle with the 15% of the US that somewhat approves of Trump, but not entirely is comfortable with him, and (2) further investigations are popular, but (3) people donât want a half cocked impeachment at this time.
P.s. what the poll shows is that 35% want to open impeachment proceedings now, 24% want to investigate more before going there, and 35% donât even want to investigate Cohenâs charges. This is again the difference between his hard core base (28% âstrong approvalâ) and his 38% approval in this poll.
P.s. I found the prior releases, and while Trumpâs approval stayed the same (it was 38% in the Jan 15 Q-poll), his âhonestyâ " âQ: Would you say that Trump is honest, or not?â fell to 30% with 65% saying No. on Jan 15 it was 34% honest, 61% dishonest. Trump has never gotten that low of an honesty ranking (he has bounced arround between 32 and 38% before) and the 65% saying Trump is dishonest is the highest ever (prior high was 63%, and it has been arround 60% most of the time). https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2603
This suggests to me that the Cohen hearings really raised some doubts about Trumpâs character and honesty in people who had formerally seen it all as just noise. This is why further hearings, further focus is really key. Democrats canât assume everyone knows who Trump is, there are still lots of people to convince with evidence and hearings.
âMajorityâ can take plural or singular verbs, depending on how itâs used.
In this case, since the majority isnât acting as one unit, it should take a plural verb.
Which means the original headline was correct.
A majority of voters think Trump has committed crimes, the rest are sure of it.
No trust. Sad!
So a majority of voters think Trump has committed crimes, but a majority also feel he shouldnât be impeached? What fresh heâll is this? In other words, theyâre okay with a criminal in the White House?
Those numbers are even higher than Trumpâs disapproval rating in the poll. Fully 55 percent of voters disapprove of Trumpâs job performance while only 38 percent approve, according to the poll. Thatâs virtually unchanged since Quinnipiacâs last survey in late January.
I thought that NBC News poll released the other day was highly suspicious. There just hasnât been any good news to send his numbers up and NBCâs polls have consistently shown his support higher than other reputable polls. I believe they over-sampled Republicans by something like 3% last year and under-sampled Dems.
These numbers are bleak for the president â but donât spell total doom. A strong majority of voters in the poll also say Congress shouldnât begin impeachment proceedings against Trump: 59 percent say it shouldnât, to 35 percent who say it should.
This why Iâm really glad Democratic leadership is following the course they are on. Do the investigations, make the case, and then prosecute. Itâs needs to be in that order. The American people want his crimes proven first before theyâre going to sign onto impeachment. Frankly, thatâs the way it should be. Once the full body of evidence is laid out for all to see and scrutinize, thatâs when youâll see the tide turn toward impeachment.
So 33 percent of Republicans believe he committed crimes. The same poll says 82 percent of Republicans âapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president.â Therefore between 15 and 33 percent of Republicans really donât care if the president of the United States is an actual criminal.
As bad as they already are, these numbers will only get worse as the House investigations commence. Theyâve really yet to even begin! And as those impeachment numbers turn, watch out.
voters believe Michael Cohen over Trump by a 15-point margin
That is convicted perjurer Michael Cohen. ROFLMAO.
As Trump quit on repealing NAFTA, various of his trade wars, whatever it was he was trying to achieve with Kim, and the shutdown, there is a non-trivial possibility (though I canât yet put it at 50%) that Trump resigns and leaves the GOP in the lurch while he negotiates a deal to limit liability and potential criminal exposure. He quits on businesses, debt, and marriages. Why would he not quit on the Presidency under the right circumstances?