Two-thirds of voters don’t want Trump to be impeached: poll

Two-thirds of American voters say that Congress should not move to impeach President Trump following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, while 29-percent believe that it should, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday.

The decision, predictably, split along party lines, with 56-percent of Democrats in favor of impeachment, and a whopping 95-percent of Republican voters in opposition, the poll found.

As for the probe itself 72-percent of respondents felt that Mueller conducted a fair investigation.

Though the report cleared Trump of colluding with Russia during the 2016 presidential election cycle, 57-percent of voters believe that Trump committed crimes before he became president.

That number is down from the 64-percent of respondents who told Quinnipiac about six weeks before the Mueller report’s release that Trump broke the law before he was elected.

Voters were split on whether or not Trump has committed crimes in the White House: 46-percent said yes, and 46-percent no.

The report made no determination of guilt or innocence as to allegations that Trump obstructed justice during the probe.

Fifty-one percent found that the report did not clear Trump of any wrongdoing, and 38-percent said that it totally exonerated him.

“No, the Mueller report did not clear President Trump, American voters say,” the poll’s assistant director, Tim Malloy, summed up. “But should impeachment proceed? The resound ‘no’ from voters says Americans want to move on.”

Ongoing probes into Trump distract Congress from paying attention to other pressing national issues, 53-percent of those polled said.

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