NASHVILLE – Only about a third of Tennesseans say in a new Vanderbilt University poll that President Donald Trump broke the law, should be impeached and removed from office on charges he abused his power to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden and obstructed Congress’ efforts to investigate.
Just over half of the 1,000 registered voters surveyed said in the Nov. 19-Dec. 5 survey that the Republican shouldn’t be removed from office. Thirty-five percent, mostly Democrats, said Trump should go.
That’s just one of the findings in Vanderbilt’s annual fall survey of Tennesseans on political figures, controversies and issues.
With the Democratic-controlled U.S. House expected to impeach Trump on Wednesday, 34% of all voters surveyed said Trump did “nothing wrong” in asking Ukraine to investigate Biden.
Another 16% said the president “did something wrong” but “it was not an impeachable offense.” Seven percent agreed the president “broke the law and should be impeached, but not removed from office.”