Iran Press/ America: Fifty percent of Americans polled said Donald Trump should be convicted, while 45 percent said he should be acquitted.
The results of the poll were divided along party lines, with 86 percent of Democrats and just 12 percent of Republicans calling for a conviction. Independents narrowly favored a conviction by a 49-45 margin.
“The impeachment question is framed by two distinctly different versions of history and offers as vivid an example of the chasm between Republicans and Democrats as you can find,” said Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy.
The results of a Marist University poll released this week showed 50 percent of Americans backing conviction. In that poll, 41 percent of respondents said Trump should be acquitted.
Trump is being tried after the House impeached him last month over his role in egging on the mob that later ransacked the US Capitol on Jan 6, the day Congress certified the Electoral College tally showing President Biden winning the White House race.
Trump urged supporters in a speech before the riot to “walk down to the Capitol” and insisted that they “will never take our country back with weakness.”
Forty-five Senate Republicans voted last week to approve a measure saying that trying a president who's no longer in office would be unconstitutional, with just five saying a trial would be constitutional. Democrats would need 17 Republicans to join them for a conviction.
The Quinnipiac University poll surveyed 1,075 adults from Jan 28-Feb 1 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.
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