Tyler Van Dyke
A majority of the public opposed the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill that left five dead, and a majority hold President Trump accountable — saying that he should be barred from future office, according to a national poll.
Eight in 10 respondents said they "strongly" opposed "the actions of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol last week to protests Biden's election as president," according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll. Another 9% of respondents "somewhat" opposed the attack, and 8% of all respondents expressed some level of support.
Asked whether they thought "Congress should or should not remove Trump from office and disqualify him from holding elected office in the future," 56% of respondents supported removing Trump and barring him from future office. Roughly 42% opposed, and 2% of respondents said they had no opinion on the matter.
The House voted to impeach Trump on Wednesday, charging him with inciting an insurrection with just a week left in office. Ten Republicans joined with the Democratic majority to vote in favor of the article of impeachment. Trump was first impeached by the Democratic-controlled House in December 2019 on two Ukraine-related charges but was acquitted by the GOP-led Senate.
Democrats were far more likely to support removing Trump from office than Republicans, the poll found. Nearly 9 in 10 Democratic respondents supported the measure compared to 12% of Republicans. Conversely, 9% of Democrats expressed opposition to preventing the outgoing president from holding future office, compared to 85% of Republicans.
Republicans generally disapprove of removing Trump from office, but a much larger portion of Republican respondents, 35%, said that party leaders should move away from Trump and "lead the party in a different direction."
There was a slight departure from polling conducted during Trump's first impeachment. A Washington Post/ABC News poll from January 2020 found that 47% of respondents supported removing Trump from office, compared to 49% who opposed.
The poll was conducted between Jan. 10 and 13 among 1,002 adults. The poll has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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