What most consider an unconstitutional process, the impeachment trial of no longer sitting President Donald Trump, began this week.

Although the House voted last month to impeach President Trump on charges that he incited his supporters to riot at the Capitol on January 6, 45 out of 50 Republican Senators voted against proceeding with the impeachment trial. The Constitution requires a two-thirds vote in the Senate for conviction so with that many senators voting against it, some say this is a waste of taxpayer money.

Rasmussen reports:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that only 11% of Likely U.S. Voters think it is very likely the Senate will convict Trump of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Another 20% say conviction is somewhat likely. Twenty-eight percent (28%) think it’s not very likely the Senate will convict Trump and 36% say conviction is not likely at all. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Only 15% of voters say they’ll watch the entire Senate impeachment trial on TV, and 21% expect to watch most of it. Thirty percent (30%) say they’ll watch some of Trump’s trial, but 32% won’t watch any of it.

The survey of 1,000 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on February 4 and 7, 2021 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

Even though Democrats are more likely to believe President Trump will be convicted in the senate, only 14% actually think it will happen.

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