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Majority of Americans want Trump out before term ends, two-thirds blame him for violent Capitol siege: Poll

According to a new poll, 56% of Americans think he 'should be removed from office before the official transfer of power,' which is due to happen on January 20, while 43% say he should not

Following the violent riots from January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump's supporters barged into the US Capitol Building, a majority of the country believes the president should be removed before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in on January 20, 2021. With only ten days left, America no longer wants Trump to continue his office. It doesn't just stop at that. People no longer have the patience to see Trump in and want him stripped off of all his powers. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, two-thirds also hold him accountable for the violent disorder on Capitol Hill. 

According to the new Reuters/Ipsos poll that was released on Sunday, January 10, 2021, a majority of Americans want President Donald Trump immediately removed from office after his role in encouraging the protest which escalated into a deadly riot that killed five people including one cop. 

ABC reported that 56% of Americans think "the sitting commander-in-chief should be removed from office before the official transfer of power", which is due to happen on January 20, 2021, in less than two weeks, while 43% say he should not. Of the 43% who believe Trump should not be removed immediately, nearly half (45%) still blame him for escalating matters by inciting MAGA supporters and think his actions were wrong.

At the same time, Republicans were much more supportive of Trump finishing the last two weeks of his term. Nearly 70% of Americans surveyed said they disapproved of Trump's actions in the run-up to Wednesday's assault, the report said. 

Trump had encouraged his followers to march up to the Capitol and "fight". Ever since the election, the president has been harping on about false, baseless claims that the election was "stolen" from him and the "patriots" who voted for him. It didn't just stop at that -- in a video message from the White House, Trump insisted that the "election was stolen" and called the rioters "very special" people. Despite the lack of adequate evidence to back his claims, Trump continued to urge his supporters to challenge Joe Biden's rightful win in the elections that saw him bitterly lose. On the fateful Wednesday, just before the rioters breached all law and order, Trump said, "We will never concede…You don’t concede when there’s theft involved." 

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi called this an act "anointed at the highest level of government". 

The Reuters/Ipsos poll comes as several lawmakers from both parties joined the call for his removal on Friday. This included Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Ben Sasse. In an interview with The Anchorage Daily News, Alaska's Senate Republican Lisa Murkowski said she wants Trump "out". Over the weekend, Pennsylvania GOP Senator Pat Toomey told Fox News that he thinks Trump "committed impeachable offences" and added, "I don't know what is going to land on the Senate floor."

As Democrats in the House of Representatives draft articles of impeachment against the president, a House impeachment vote could come as early as next week. Although it cannot be predicted just how much the Republicans support it with no update on whether Vice President Mike Pence supports such action. On Thursday, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., became the first Republican to publicly call for the invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office.

"The president not only abdicated his duty to protect the American people and the people's house, he invoked and inflamed passions that gave fuel to the insurrection we saw here," Kinzinger said in a video posted to Twitter. "When pressed to move and denounce the violence he barely did so, while of course victimizing himself ... all indications are that the president has become unmoored, not just from his duty, or even his health, but from reality itself."

Taking to Twitter he shared, "It’s with a heavy heart I am calling for the sake of our Democracy that the 25th Amendment be invoked. My statement:"