For months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) cited one compelling reason to hold off impeachment proceedings against President Trump: “public sentiment.” Pelosi regularly mentioned an Abraham Lincoln quote about shaping support for abolishing slavery — “Public sentiment is everything,” the future president said in a 1858 speech — to set up a precondition for launching an impeachment inquiry.
Now, Pelosi finds the Democrats with much stronger public sentiment than originally anticipated almost three weeks after she greenlighted an impeachment probe into Trump’s pressure on a foreign leader to investigate his domestic political rival. Every public poll since that Sept. 24 announcement has shown movement toward an impeachment inquiry, but deeper inside the polls are even better signs for Democrats, and worse ones for Trump. CONT.
Paul Kane, Washington Post
Recent polls: President Trump and impeachment