While the House of Representatives devotes its time to impeaching President Trump, a survey by the Beer Institute finds voters favor an extension of the Craft Beverage Modernization & Tax Reform Act more than they favor impeaching the president.
The Beer Institute poll found 68% approved of extending the tax bill, including 75% of conservatives, 63% of moderates and 66% of liberals.
Among younger voters 21-38 years old, 74% approved, including 81% conservatives, 68% moderates, and 71% liberals.
That’s a lot more support for continuing the current bev/al tax structure than polls are finding for removing Donald Trump from office.
According to the FiveThirtyEight average of national polls, support for impeachment has shrunk to 46.3% presently from 50.3% in mid-October, while opposition has risen to 45.6% from 43.8%.
Among independents in the FiveThirtyEight average, support for impeachment topped out at 47.7% in late October but has sunk to 41% over the past three weeks.
YouGov is among the polls registering that decline, with independent support for impeachment dropping to 35% now from 39% earlier this month and opposition increasing to 40% from 35%.
An Emerson University survey found an even more extreme flip among independents.
In October, independents supported impeachment 48% to 35% in Emerson’s polling. In the new poll released this week, independents opposed it by a 49% to 34% margin. In that time, overall support for impeaching Trump swung from 48% in favor and 44% against to 45% in opposition to impeachment and 43% in favor.
“There’s always a disconnect between Washington and what people are thinking out in the states,” said Dick Harpootlian, the former chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party and a surrogate for former Joe Biden’s presidential campaign. (And that’s why Donald Trump became President . . . our opinion.
But in this case, at least as far the bev/al tax issue is concerned, Washington and the rest of the country seem aligned. A bill extending the Craft Beverage Modernization & Tax Reform Act has a record 321 cosponsors in the House (163 Democrats, 158 Republicans), and 74 in the Senate (38 Democrats, 36 Republicans).