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Trump Nears All-Time High Approval From GOP in Latest Poll — And That Was Before Russia Probe Ended
According to a new poll, President Donald Trump is currently nearing the highest percentage of Republican support since he took office.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll, which was done before the Robert Mueller investigation ended, showed that Trump had an approval rating of 87 percent among Republicans:
“President Donald Trump has enjoyed solid support from Republicans throughout his presidency. In the latest Economist/YouGov Poll, which went into the field just before the Attorney General released his four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election on Sunday, 87 percent of Republicans approve of the way President Trump is handling his job, which is among the highest levels of approval from Republicans in the Trump administration.”
According to the poll, 68 percent of Republicans had the opinion that the investigation was a “witch hunt,” while 18 percent saw it as a “legitimate” probe.
Another interesting thing that the poll’s results showed was that three out of four Republicans believe that some of the actions uncovered by the investigation are not true.
“This is not a new belief,” the poll report said. “Republicans continue to disbelieve some of what the Special Counsel’s investigation has determined: that Russia hacked Democratic National Committee’s emails and that Russia created and spread fake news stories to influence the 2016 election.”
However, YouGov claimed there was never a widespread belief that Trump colluded with the Russian government.
“There was never a massive public belief that the president himself colluded with Russia. In an Economist/YouGov Poll conducted earlier this month, just 41 percent said they believed the president accepted Russian help; even fewer, 31 percent, thought he asked for it,” the analysis said.
The poll also found that in the weeks leading up to Attorney General William Barr’s summary, Republicans’ approval of Mueller increased drastically.
Although the full report is currently under review, it seems as though Trump’s rating has improved and may continue to rise in the coming weeks. The president has also said that he is willing to have the full report released to the public once it is ready.
https://ijr.com/trump-approval-rating-nearing-all-time-high/
GOP rep calls for investigation into Schiff
Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) on Thursday called for an investigation into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), citing his past rhetoric about President Trump and his family in the special counsel probe into Russian election meddling.
“Isn’t that the information that we need to know?” Hice, who serves on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Hill.TV when asked whether he agreed with Trump’s recent comments calling for Schiff to be forced out of office, and he suggested the California lawmaker may have committed a crime.
“Let’s find out,” Hice continued. “Let’s open it up. Let’s bring those people forward.”
“As I said, we need to find out,” he said when asked directly whether he thought Schiff was a criminal.
“I don’t know all that he’s done, but what I do know is that he’s been on the forefront for two years claiming that he had evidence that the president colluded with Russia," he continued. "I believe thoroughly that was false. He was either misled, or he was misleading, and we need to get to the bottom of it.”
“So Adam Schiff needs to be one that comes forward. If he has evidence, put it on the table. So if he has committed crimes, we need to find out, and I think that is one individual, absolutely, that needs to be brought forward for a thorough investigation," Hice continued.
Hice's comments came as Schiff hit back at Republicans on Capitol Hill for calling for his resignation.
"My colleagues may think it is OK the president's son was offered dirt as part of an effort to help Trump," Schiff said. "You might think it is OK. I don’t."
Schiff's comments were in response to Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who said that the chairman had lost the confidence of the panel by putting out a "demonstrably false" narrative.
“The findings of the special counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as abused your position to knowingly promote false information,” Conaway said.
Attorney General William Barr said in a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that no evidence of coordination or conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow was discovered.
Republicans have since seized on that statement, but Democrats have pointed to Mueller declining to say whether Trump obstructed the probe itself, according to the attorney general's summary.
Barr, however, said in the summary that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein came to the conclusion that the evidence was "not sufficient" to establish an obstruction of justice charge.
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/436269-gop-rep-calls-for-investigation-into-schiff
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