With less than a week before the U.S. Senate is set to begin its impeachment trial of Donald Trump on charges he incited the insurrection at the U.S.
Capitol on Jan. 6, half of Americans say the Senate should convict Trump, compared to 45 percent who say he shouldn’t be convicted, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll of 1,075 adults released today (Thursday, Feb.
4). Among Democrats, the split was, not surprisingly, 86 percent to 11 percent in favor of convicting Trump. Independents also favored a conviction, 49 percent to 45 percent.
And, again not surprisingly, Republicans are against convicting Trump by an 86 percent to 12 percent margin. Three months after Biden won election on Nov.