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You can either face facts or not. Gallup had only 7% of Republicans favoring impeachment this poll has 10% in favor, 80% against. Democrats 82% favor impeachment, 7% do not. Question 33
Trump has an 86% favorable among Republicans, 12% unfavorable, question 56A. Among democrats 8% favorable, 90% unfavorable, question 56A. Notice the ultra high partisanship when it comes to Trump.
84% of all Republicans want Trump to run for reelection, 10% do not. Question 74.
86% of all Republicans say they'll vote for Trump in 2020, 5% say they'll vote for the Democrat. Question 52. Compare that to the actual Republican vote in 2016 where 88% of Republicans voted for Trump, 8% for Clinton, 4% third party.
79% of republicans say the impeachment proceedings has been unfair vs. only 8% who say it has been. 80% of democrats say the proceedings have been fair, 7% unfair. Question 35.
Now this poll didn't ask about impeachment being a political vendetta, but you can rest assured most Republicans are squarely behind Trump.
The only conclusion I can come to, your real republicans amount to around 10% of all those who call themselves Republicans. Or is it to be a real republican, one must favor impeaching Trump? No, what you see here is the polarization the two major parties have caused with their hyper, ulta partisanship. Perhaps Trump needs to be removed for cause, maybe not. I'm not arguing that. What I'm saying is that for most Republicans they view this impeachment as a very partisan political vendetta against Trump, democrats taking revenge only because he beat Hillary Clinton.
How else would one interpret the numbers?
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.