Survey: Voters would rather see big tech companies face punishment for censorship than see another impeachment

According to a leaked memo, voters want House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to stop the second impeachment of President Donald Trump and would rather see the punishment of Big Tech for censoring the President, according to The Washington Examiner.

According to the Examiner, The memo said that "sixty percent of battleground voters view Democrats' latest effort to impeach President Donald Trump as another 'waste of time and money' and are seeking an orderly transition of power."

Trump's job approval with battleground state voters was at 49 percent in the survey, much higher than that of Congress, at 72 percent disapproval.

Voters in battleground states are also concerned with censorship from big tech companies, following the removal of conservative competitors like Parler and the allegedly coordinated effort to ban the President from their platforms.

Pollster John McLaughlin's memo to top Trump advisor Jason Miller shows that battleground voters are "more eager for the nation to move on rather than impeach the president for last week’s riot of pro-Trump supporters at the US Capitol." The two-page memo obtained by The Examiner said that those members of Congress who push for impeachment may face a voter backlash in the 2022 midterm elections.

According to the memo, "With regards to impeachment, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin are firmly against it."

"Seventy-seven percent said Congress should work on the coronavirus response instead. Seventy-four percent said impeachment is politically motivated to prevent the president from running again."

"Sixty-five percent said Biden and Pelosi are 'keeping the country divided.'"

According to The Examiner, "The memo included a warning against continuing with impeachment, because nearly half of those polled are 'less likely to vote for a member of Congress who votes to impeach.' Only 36 percent said they were more likely to vote for a member of Congress who voted for impeachment."

McLaughlin wrote in the memo, "Voters strongly prefer that Congress deal with fighting coronavirus and not impeachment. Impeachment is viewed as a waste of time and money. Voters believe that the Democrats are playing politics and that continuing to attack the president is making it worse."

With regards to the transition on Inauguration Day, "89 percent of voters are eager for an orderly transition, and 70 percent of those called that 'very important.'"

The survey also found "massive resentment towards Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms that banned Trump." 74 percent agreed that if they can take away the President's free speech, "they can take away the right to free speech for any American."

McLaughlin, who polled for the Trump campaign said, "70 percent believe that technology firms, including Twitter, Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple, are too powerful and need to be regulated."

McLaughlin & Associates described their methodology for the polling in the memo as:

"McLaughlin & Associates conducted this survey among 800 voters in the recent campaign’s 17 battleground states on January 10 and 11, 2021. All interviews were conducted online among adults who identified as registered voters who voted in the November 2020 election. The interview distribution was structured to correlate with the electoral college vote by state (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin). The survey sample reflects the demographics of the November 2020 election. The accuracy of the 800-voter sample is +/-3.4% at a 95% confidence interval."