A plurality of registered voters is against a Senate conviction and removal of President Donald Trump, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which included more Democrats than Republicans.
Almost half of the poll's registered voters (49%) think the Senate should not vote to remove the president. That trumps the 46% of registered voters who support removal.
This is a significant finding in a sample that featured a plurality of Democratic primary voters, according to the poll:
- 35% will vote in Democratic primary.
- 29% will vote in Republican primary.
- 34% will not vote until the general election.
- 1% will not vote.
- 1% unsure.
The House impeachment articles of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress being tried in the Senate have not moved the needle toward removal, the pollsters said.
"We've been through an impeachment inquiry in the House, a trial in the Senate, and America's attitudes about Donald Trump have hardly budged," Hart Research Associates' Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt told NBC News.
"Public opinion looks like it did from the start: It was a hung jury then, and it is a hung jury now," he added.
"Same as it always was," Democratic pollster Peter Hart chimed in, per NBC News.
There is a majority of registered voters who believe Trump abused his power (52%) and obstructed Congress (53%), but still the plurality was against removal.
Also, on the issues of witnesses and evidence, the poll plurality sides with Senate Republicans:
- 39% says Senate has enough.
- 37% says it needs more.
The Senate rejected witnesses Friday in a 51-49 vote that featured just Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, crossing the aisle. Both Romney and Collins voted against permitting more documents in a vote that was right down party lines 53-47.
The poll was conducted Jan. 26-29 among 1,000 registered voters has and a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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