Public support for impeaching President Trump — and also for removing him from office — surged after Nancy Pelosi announced the House impeachment inquiry more than two weeks ago. For now, that support hasn’t reached the point where one might expect Republican members of Congress to feel substantial political pressure […] Read more »
How Impeachment Is Supposed To Work
With so much impeachment news coming so quickly, we thought it would be good to go back to basics with a little Impeachment 101. To do that, we brought in Cardozo School of Law professor and ABC News contributor Kate Shaw. In this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Shaw […] Read more »
This Week in Impeachment: Trump Lets Democrats Off the Hook, Puts the Squeeze on GOP Instead
The impeachment of President Trump was already a likely event by the end of last week. It became even more likely this week. … A Washington community that is ordinarily fond of cautioning Democrats that they are risking “overreach” by engaging in any politically assertive behavior temporarily ceased its usual […] Read more »
What Nixon’s impeachment saga teaches us about Trump’s
Will Republicans ever get on board with impeaching and removing President Donald Trump from office? That’s a question that we should be asking, given that Trump won’t be removed unless a lot of Republican senators back such a move. Republican lawmakers will likely only do it if a lot Republican […] Read more »
Support for Trump impeachment inquiry rises
More than half of Americans say they support the impeachment inquiry launched by the House of Representatives against President Donald Trump. And nearly as many are ready to see him impeached and removed from office, according to a new poll from the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist. These latest poll […] Read more »
Independents Move In Favor Of Impeachment Inquiry, GOP Stays Firmly Against
A slim majority of Americans now approve of the Democratic House-led impeachment inquiry into President Trump, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds. Fifty-two percent say they approve of the inquiry, while 43% disapprove. That’s a slight increase in support from two weeks ago, when 49% approved and 46% disapproved. The […] Read more »