It’s no secret. Most congressional Democrats hate President Donald J. Trump to the point that they’ve developed Trump Derangement Syndrome. They will do anything, literally anything, to get him out of office.
Not wanting to wait until the 2020 presidential election to oust the President, some liberal lawmakers and Democratic presidential contenders, including Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), are calling for his impeachment. But, a recent ABC News poll shows just how foolhardy initiating this drastic action would be.
According to the poll, only 37 percent of people in the United States said they believed Trump should be impeached. TheBlaze reported that this is the lowest number proclaiming the President should be impeached in this particular poll’s history.
Before the highly anticipated Mueller report was released, 41 percent of those polled stated Trump should be impeached. And, in August of last year, a much larger 49 percent of Americans surveyed said impeachment proceedings should be brought against the President.
In the most recent poll, greater than half of Americans, a whopping 56 percent, said Trump should not be impeached. Besides being asked if Trump should be impeached, those responding to the poll were also asked if they thought the President obstructed justice.
Intriguingly, a lot more Americans responded that Trump obstructed justice than wanted him impeached. Forty-seven percent of those surveyed said they believed the President obstructed justice while 41 percent claimed Trump didn’t obstruct justice.
Just 31 percent of those polled sided with the President that the Mueller report completely exonerated him. However, 53 percent of respondents claimed the Mueller report didn’t entirely clear Trump of all charges.
In March of this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) stated that it was “not worth it” to impeach Trump. Her comments were made after the Mueller report was released. At the time, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MA) agreed with Pelosi’s sentiments.
Since March, Pelosi’s position on impeachment has seemingly started to waver. Last week, the House Speaker said, “I do believe that impeachment is one of most divisive forces, paths that we could go to in our country, but if the facts, if the path of fact-finding takes us there we have no choice, but we’re not there yet.”
Pelosi went on to add, “I say to you, as I said earlier, there are many ways to hold the president accountable. The Congress, The Justice Department may have not decided to use its full power to impeach — to indict. Congress will not be silent in terms of using our constitutional power to find the facts for the American people.”
While Pelosi apparently can’t decide which way she wants to proceed, Warren and Harris have made their wishes clear. On April 19, 2019, after the release of the Mueller report, Warren tweeted, “To ignore a President’s repeated efforts to obstruct an investigation into his own disloyal behavior would inflict great and lasting damage on this country, and it would suggest that both the current and future Presidents would be free to abuse their power in similar ways.”
The progressive Senator, whose campaign has struggled to catch fire, also tweeted, “The severity of this misconduct demands that elected officials in both parties set aside political considerations and do their constitutional duty. That means the House should initiate impeachment proceedings against the President of the United States.”
The next day, Warren doubled down on her call for impeachment at an event at Keene College in New Hampshire. The Senator said, “I know people say this is politically charged and we shouldn’t go there, and that there is an election coming up, but there are some things that are bigger than politics.”
During a town hall on April 22, 2019, fellow Senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Harris said, “I believe Congress should take the steps towards impeachment.”
She also stated, “I am also a realist and when I look at what has been happening over the two years and some months since I’ve been in the United States Senate, I have also witnessed folks in the United States Congress and in particular the GOP, who have been presented with many reasons to push back against this president and they have not.”
Democrats have an important choice to make. They can refrain from brining impeachment proceedings against Trump. Or, they can defy the will of the American people and impeach the President, presumptively without any corroborating evidence. If Democrats in Congress overreach and try to impeach the President they loath so badly, they might unintentionally give him a landslide victory in 2020.
