Trump Impeachment Poll: 51% Of Florida Wants Trump To Stay In Office, Doesn't Support Trial

Florida, a state where Donald Trump won both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote in 2016, doesn't want him kicked out of office.

A statewide poll by the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economics Polling Initiative (FAU BEPI) reveals 51 percent of Floridian voters don't want Trump removed from office, while 49 percent hold the opposite opinion. It's the first FAU BEPI poll as regards Trump's impeachment and removal from office. Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on Dec. 18, 2019.

Trump's approval rating in the Sunshine State is also trending in his favor. The poll shows 45 percent of voters approve of his performance while 43 percent disapprove. The poll was conducted from Jan. 9 to 12 and involved 1,285 Florida registered voters.

The approval rating results were almost similar to the other FAU BEPI poll taken in May 2019. This poll showed Trump’s job approval at 47 percent with 44 percent disapproval. This result was a marked turnaround from February 2019’s FAU poll that saw Trump's job approval underwater at 46 percent disapproval and 41 percent approval. The May Florida statewide poll was conducted May 16 to 19 and involved Florida registered voters.

As for the Democrats, the 2020 poll showed former vice president Joe Biden expanding his lead to 26 points among Floridian voters in the race to become the Democratic Party's nominee for president. Biden's candidacy is supported by 42 percent of voters, up from 34 percent in BEPI's September 2019 poll.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) ascended into second place at 14 percent, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) fell to third at 10 percent. Warren polled 24 percent in September. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg came in fourth at seven percent. Behind him were Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) at six percent; businessman Andrew Yang at five percent; and South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg at three percent.

Sanders was the Floridian's favorite in head-to-head matchups against Trump, with a 53-to-47 percent advantage over the latter. Biden and Warren each beat Trump by two points (51-to-49 percent). Buttigieg finished in a 50-to-50 dead heat with Trump. Back in September 2019, Trump held small leads in each of these head-to-head matchups.

In 2016, Trump won 49.0 percent of the popular vote in Florida over Hillary Clinton, who took 47.8 percent of the vote. Trump won all 29 of the State's Electoral College votes.