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Nearly 60 percent of voters say enough already, and believe President Trump should be either impeached and removed from office or formally censured.

The new Harvard/Harris poll, first reported in The Hill, shows that a majority of voters polled think some kind of action should be taken against Trump, though they are divided on how far lawmakers should go as Democrats prepare to take over the House majority.

Asked whether Trump should be impeached and removed from office for his actions, censured by Congress or whether Congress should take no action, nearly 40 percent of respondents said Trump should be impeached and removed from office.

Another twenty percent of poll respondents said lawmakers should vote to formally censure the president.

Impeachment would require a majority vote by the House — a possibility with a Democratic majority, though leadership in the party have been cautious on the topic.

Conviction in the Senate would require a two-thirds vote, something unlikely in a body that will have 53 Republicans.

Forty-one percent of respondents said Congress should take no action against the president, according to the survey.

Bill Clinton was impeached by a Republican-controlled House in 1998, but he was not convicted in the Senate.

Richard Nixon faced the prospect of impeachment and conviction in 1974, but resigned the presidency before the votes happened.

The poll results come as Trump faces criminal investigations in both Washington, D.C., and New York related to whether his campaign coordinated with Russian officials and actors to help sway the 2016 presidential election.

At the same time, federal prosecutors implicated Trump earlier this month in a separate case related to payments made to two women to keep them quiet about affairs they say they had with him.

In a memo recommending a prison sentence for Trump’s former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, federal prosecutors said Trump directed the payments to the two women to ward off a potential sex scandal as he sought the White House in 2016.

Those payments, prosecutors argue, amounted to illegal contributions to the real estate mogul’s campaign.

U.S. voters are near-evenly divided on whether the payments warrant impeachment.

Half of voters polled said they favor trying to impeach Trump over the allegations, while the other half said that doing so would return the country to 1998, when Clinton was impeached after lying under oath about an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern.

 

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