Voters remain statistically tied in their support for or opposition to impeaching President Joe Biden by Congress, according to a new poll from Rasmussen Reports.
The poll of nearly 1,000 likely voters found that 42% of those polled said they favored Congress holding impeachment proceedings against Biden; 45% said the opposite. The poll has a margin of error of 3% +/-.
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A large majority of Republicans, 70%, said Congress should hold impeachment hearings; 71% of Democrats said Congress shouldn’t. Of independents, 39% said Congress should begin impeachment proceedings; 40% said they shouldn’t.
The poll early three key questions. It first asked, “Since becoming president, how likely is it that Joe Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors that would warrant Congress impeaching him?” It was then asked, “Should Congress begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden?” Finally, it asked, “Regardless of whether you think President Biden should be impeached, how likely is it that Congress will actually pursue impeachment proceedings against President Biden?”
The majority of all polled, 53%, said it was “at least somewhat probable” that since taking office the president has “committed serious crimes and offenses that would warrant Congress to impeach him.” Of those, 38% said it was “very likely” that he had committed “aggravated crimes and offences”; 28% said it was “not likely at all”.
More than a third of Democrats and 48% of Independents said it was “at least somewhat likely.”
More men than women, 58% to 48%, said the president was likely to have committed serious crimes and offenses; men were also more likely to support Congress in pursuing impeachment proceedings.
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Despite this, 66% said it was “at least not very likely”; 29% said it was “not at all likely” that Congress would do anything.
The findings were recently published report found that “the FBI had no verifiable evidence that President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election when it launched a federal investigation.”
The findings were also published after lawyers for an IRS whistleblower informed members of Congress “that their client, who claims to have information suggesting that the Biden administration was misdirecting the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.” able to treat has been removed from the investigation of the president’s son,” ABC News reported.
According to a recent Reuters-Ipsos questionnaire conducted from May 9 to 15, if a rematch were held today, Biden would get 38% of the vote, Trump would get 36%. According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris pollTrump would beat Biden by seven percentage points.
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The results of the Rasmussen Reports poll were released the same day that U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, announced she planned to file articles of impeachment against Biden. Her main reason for doing so, she said, was that the president “deliberately endangered our national security by refusing to enforce immigration laws and secure our border” by “allowing approximately six million illegal immigrants from more than 170 countries to enter our to invade the country”.
White House spokesman Ian Sams said Greene’s announcement was a “shameless political stunt.”
The Rasmussen survey was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, which surveyed 996 likely registered voters nationwide on May 11 and May 14-15 by phone and online.
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