Over the last few weeks, more and more Democratic Members of Congress have come out in favor of impeachment hearings. According to the ShareBlue whip count, 55 currently elected Democratic House members, or nearly a quarter (23%) of their caucus, now support moving forward on impeachment. This slightly lags the 30% of Democrats who responded they wanted impeachment hearings immediately in the latest NBC/WSJ Poll conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Hart Research Associates.
One of the primary motivators behind support for impeachment is the partisan lean of the district, with members from more Democratic districts more supportive of impeachment. Overall, the average share of the vote Donald Trump received in districts where Democrats are calling for impeachment has a median of 27%, while in Democratic districts where they haven’t, Trump received a median of 37% of the vote in 2016: CONT.
Noah Rudnick, Public Opinion Strategies
