Public support for impeachment grows after Pelosi backs inquiry
Support for impeaching President Trump, especially among Democrats, is up modestly in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement that she supports an “official impeachment inquiry,” a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds.
In the HuffPost/YouGov survey, taken between Tuesday night and Thursday morning, Americans say by an 8-point margin, 47% to 39%, that they support impeaching and removing President Trump from office. That’s up from a 2-point margin earlier this month, and the widest margin of support of any HuffPost/YouGov survey taken since this spring.
Those sorts of elite cues are important because, as the HuffPost/YouGov poll finds, there’s still significant public uncertainty about both the impeachment process and the details of the latest controversy. Only about half of Americans know that a successful impeachment vote in the House would be followed by a trial in the Senate.
Opinions are starkly divided along partisan lines, although Democrats are more unanimous in their condemnation of Trump than Republicans are in his defense. More than 80% of Democrats say it’s inappropriate for Trump to ask Ukraine’s president to investigate Biden’s son, and about three-quarters say the call is at least a somewhat serious problem.
Other surveys, meanwhile, have found public opinion remaining basically stable. A tracking poll from the Democratic pollster Civiqs found that voters’ support for impeachment has stayed at about 45% since May. In a Reuters/Ipsos survey taken Monday and Tuesday, support for impeachment stood at 37%, slightly lower than it had been earlier in the month, or following the release of the Mueller Report.
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