G. Elliott Morris reports on a new survey:
Our new poll shows that 55% of U.S. adults support the House voting to impeach Trump, while 37% oppose and 8% are unsure.
As for the president’s overall approval rating, there is a strong intensity gap in responses to our poll. Overall, 45% of all adults say they strongly support impeachment, while only 30% say they strongly oppose it. That is a 15-point intensity gap in favor of impeachment — the people who want Trump out are both more numerous and more committed than the people who want him to stay.
Support for impeachment extends well beyond the Democratic base. The chart below shows support and opposition to impeaching the president for major demographic groups in our new survey:
Look at those demographics. Yikes. The only group that isn’t in favor are the over 65s and that’s a bare majority. I’m frankly a little bit shocked by this. He’s even lost 21% of Republicans.
People seem to mean it:
The 55% figure is unusual by modern impeachment-polling standards.After January 6, 2021, ABC News/Washington Post found 56% wanted Trump impeached and removed from office. Other polls showed similar numbers: The Pew Research Center had it at 54%, and Gallup at 52%.
For comparison’s sake, during the Ukraine impeachment in fall 2019, Fox News had impeachment and removal at 51% and Gallup at 52%. Bill Clinton’s peak removal number in January 1999 (which failed) was just 33%.
And support for impeaching Trump today is only a few percentage points lower than it was for Richard Nixon in 1974: And at the height of Watergate, days before Nixon resigned, Gallup found 58% wanted him removed. Trump is in “Nixon resignation” territory with these impeachment numbers (and his approval rating overall).
But note our poll is not completely apples to apples: we asked about the House voting to impeach, a lower bar than the “impeach and remove” language most national pollsters have used historically. But even accounting for that, the April 2026 number sits at or near the high-water mark of modern impeachment polling, and well above the Ukraine and Clinton readings.
I think the Democrats should do it if the win the House, and they should do it on the basis of his rampant corruption. Even if the Republicans in the Senate refuse to convict, which is almost certain, get those politicians on the record defending this outrageous grift. It’s the issue that brings the whole thing together — the assault on democracy, the economy, national security and the completely disrespect of the American voters.
No wonder he’s losing his grip. He doesn’t know how to end the war he’s started, the economy is getting worse by the day and his immigration program has turned out to be massively unpopular. And the country has turned on him because of it.
This guy would vote for it: