Just a couple weeks ago, the prospect of the House voting to impeach the president looked unlikely. … Then, just over a week ago, came news of a whistleblower who claimed President Trump pressured the Ukrainian president for information about Joe Biden. Since then, there’s been a steady, unrelenting series of developments.
This week, we also got our first round of polling taken since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House was starting a formal impeachment inquiry. …
The first thing you notice is that the opinions of the president have stayed stable since the Ukraine story broke. Trump’s job approval rating measured anywhere from 37 percent (CNBC) to 44 percent (Marist). As I noted last week, opinions about this president are incredibly fixed. Over the last two-plus years, his approval ratings have stayed within a very narrow range of between 35 percent to 45 percent.
While Trump’s overall job approval hasn’t budged, opinions of impeachment have moved significantly in favor of impeachment. In other words, even as support for impeachment has grown, views of the president are virtually unchanged. CONT.
Amy Walter, Cook Political Report
Recent polls: President Trump and impeachment