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HPU Poll: North Carolinians Split On Impeachment

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., left, and ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., watch as top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William Taylor leaves after testifying at a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, during the first public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (Saul Loeb/Pool Photo via AP)

A new poll from High Point University finds North Carolinians are split over the impeachment of President Donald Trump.

The poll finds that 44 percent of respondents said President Trump should be impeached and removed from office, while 43 percent said he should not.

A small number of those polled said he should be impeached but not removed from office.

The survey took place in the first week of November before the public hearings began.

The poll found the president's approval rating at 40 percent, a two-point drop from September's poll. More than half of respondents disapprove of the president's performance.

Gov. Roy Cooper also had a 40 percent approval rating, but fewer people disapproved of the job he's doing.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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