Poll: Voters Nearly Split on Wanting Congress to Impeach President Biden
According to a new Rasmussen Reports poll, voters remain statistically tied in their support for or opposition to Congress impeaching President Joe Biden.
The poll of nearly 1,000 likely voters found that 42% surveyed said they favored Congress holding impeachment proceeding against Biden; 45% said the opposite. The poll has a 3% +/- margin of error.
A strong majority of Republicans, 70%, said Congress should hold impeachment hearings; 71% of Democrats said Congress shouldnât. Among independents, 39% said Congress should begin impeachment proceedings; 40% said they shouldnât.
The poll asked three key questions. It first asked, âHow likely is it that, since becoming president, Joe Biden has committed high crimes and misdemeanors that would justify Congress impeaching him?â It next asked, âShould Congress begin impeachment proceedings against President Biden?â Finally, it asked, âRegardless of whether or not you think President Biden should be impeached, how likely is it that Congress actually will pursue impeachment proceedings against President Biden?â
The majority of all polled, 53%, said it was âat least somewhat likelyâ that since taking office the president has committed âhigh crimes and misdemeanors that would justify Congress impeaching him.â Among them, 38% said it was âvery likelyâ that he had committed âhigh crimes and misdemeanors;â 28% said it was ânot at all likely.â
Over one-third of Democrats and 48% of independents said it was âat least somewhat likely.â
More men than women, 58% to 48%, said it was likely that the president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors; men were also more likely to support Congress holding impeachment proceedings.
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Despite this, 66% said it was âat least not very likely;â 29% said it was ânot at all likelyâ that Congress would do anything.
The findings were published as a recent report found that âthe FBI had no verifiable evidence that President Donald Trumpâs campaign colluded with Russia to sway the outcome of the 2016 presidential election when it launched a federal investigation.â
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The findings were also published after attorneys for an IRS whistleblower informed members of Congress âthat their client, who claims to have information suggesting the Biden administration could be mishandling the investigation into President Joe Bidenâs son, Hunter Biden, has been removed from the probe into the presidentâs son,â ABC News reported.
According to a recent Reuters-Ipsos survey conducted May 9-15, if a rematch were held today, Biden would receive 38% of the vote, Trump would receive 36%. According to a recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, Trump would defeat Biden by seven percentage points.
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The Rasmussen Reports poll results were released on the same day U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, announced she planned to file articles of impeachment against Biden. Her main reason for doing so, she said, was because the president has âdeliberately compromised our national security by refusing to enforce immigration laws and secure our borderâ by allowing âapproximately six million illegals from over 170 countries to invade our country.â
White House spokesman Ian Sams said Greeneâs announcement was a âshameless sideshow political stunt.â
The Rasmussen poll was conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC, which surveyed 996 likely registered voters nationwide by phone and online on May 11 and 14-15.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.