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The first new poll conducted after the United States House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump shows that while the vote did little to affect public opinion, Trump remains in deep trouble. More than half of all Americans want Trump not only impeached, but they also want the Senate to convict him and remove him from office, according to to the results compiled by the Morning Consult survey released late Friday afternoon.
The Morning Consult poll, which showed that 51 percent of Americans continue to favor Trump’s removal from office — an unlikely prospect, because removal would take 67 votes in the Senate, under the Constitutional requirement of a two-thirds vote to “convict” in a Senate trial. That means all 45 Democrats and two independents would need to vote in favor of removing Trump — and 20 Republicans must join them. But so far, none of the Senate’s 53 Republican members have indicated any likelihood that they would break from supporting Trump.