Just more than half of Americans think President Trump should be impeached and removed from office.
Fox News polled 1,003 registered voters across the United States by phone from Oct. 6-8 and released the results on Wednesday. It is the first Fox News poll conducted since allegations surfaced that Trump oversaw a quid pro quo deal with Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden in return for U.S. military aid.
At 51%, just more than half of the respondents said that Trump should be impeached and removed from office, with 43% saying that Trump should stay and 6% unsure.
Respondents were also asked how troubling the allegations and evidence against Trump is, with 51% saying the situation is very or extremely troubling and 44% saying the situation is somewhat or not at all troubling. Five percent of respondents were unsure.
Trump has alleged that Biden withheld $1 billion in loan guarantees from Ukraine while vice president in order to save his son, Hunter, from being investigated for corrupt dealings while sitting on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
The poll asked respondents how troubling they saw Biden’s situation and 36% said very or extremely troubling, 58% said somewhat or not at all, and 6% said they did not know.
UPDATE:
Trump’s campaign responded to the Fox News poll on Thursday, suggesting the support for impeachment is inflated.
“It’s not hard to get 51% in favor of impeachment when nearly half of those polled were Democrats. The media should put this poll where it belongs — in the garbage,” a Trump campaign official told the Washington Examiner.
