A new survey from the Center for Strategic Politics is drawing sharp reactions.
A new survey from the Center for Strategic Politics is drawing sharp reactions after it asked Democratic voters how they would feel about several scenarios involving President Donald Trump leaving office, including impeachment, military removal and assassination.
Harvard Law professor emeritus and author Alan Dershowitz, speaking with the National News Desk on Wednesday, said the findings were not surprising to him.
It's not surprising to me that there are so many people on the left who would do anything to get rid of Trump, including Illegal, unconstitutional conduct,” Dershowitz said.
The Center for Strategic Politics survey looked at how hundreds of Democratic voters viewed different outcomes for Trump’s presidency. According to the results, 87% of those polled said they would feel "very" or "somewhat positive" about Trump being impeached and convicted by both houses of Congress. The survey also found that 32% said they would feel "very" or "somewhat positive" about Trump being assassinated at a rally. Dershowitz said the poll reflects broader frustration with democratic processes.
There's a lot of feeling among people that democracy doesn't work. We just want our person in, our person out and we don't care of the mechanism, he said.
The results were released just weeks before the November 3rd midterm elections, where Democrats are trying to regain control of Congress and have kept open the possibility of impeachment.
We haven't ruled anything in and we haven't ruled anything out in terms of impeachment," House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries,D-N.Y., told ABC News earlier this month. “We've got to follow the facts, apply the law, be guided by the constitution and then let the chips fall where they may.
Several Republican officials responded to the survey on social media. Tennessee Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger wrote, “These people are sick.” Plus, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote, "Democrats claim to support “our democracy,” yet by a massive margin they support a military coup." Meanwhile, Dershowitz said he believes the rise in tolerance for political violence is not going away, pointing to younger generations.
If you want to know what a country will look like in 10 or 15 years, look at the college students today. And if you look at college students, they're intolerant, they are willing to engage in violence, they are not philosophical, they believe that the ends justify the means,” he said.
As of Wednesday night, no major Democratic officials or formal party leaders have publicly commented on the new survey. Which also found that 43% of respondents said they would feel "very" or "somewhat negative" reading about Trump’s assassination.
