The House’s public impeachment hearings will test whether Donald Trump was right when he declared that his political support is so rock-solid that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without consequence—and what it means for a bitterly divided nation if he was. Even some Republican political professionals privately acknowledge […] Read more »
The Public Impeachment Hearings Begin
Wednesday marked the beginning of public hearings on whether President Trump should be impeached for pressuring Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast will be reacting to the impeachment hearings as they happen and, in this installment, the crew considers new evidence of Trump’s pressure […] Read more »
How America views impeachment as public hearings begin
House Democrats would argue that the impeachment inquiry underway in the House stands apart from politics. There certainly is a case to be made that President Trump’s actions in relation to Ukraine raise fundamental questions about presidential power and conduct that supersede partisan voting. Fundamentally, though, impeachment is a political […] Read more »
What Impeachment Will Cost the GOP
On December 19, 1998, the day House Republicans impeached President Bill Clinton, he recorded his highest-ever score in Gallup’s presidential approval poll: 73 percent favorable. … President Donald Trump and this generation of Republicans plainly are looking to the politics of the Clinton impeachment as a source of comfort. They […] Read more »
Impeachment has stagnated in the polls. That happened with Nixon, too.
This week is arguably the most important to date in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. It’s the first time there will be public testimony, which comes at a time when the American people have become seemingly locked in their impeachment positions: They’re for the inquiry but much less […] Read more »
Poll finds negative views of Democrats’ and Trump’s handling of impeachment inquiry
Congressional Democrats and Republicans each appear to face a challenge moving public opinion on impeachment as public hearings begin, since many Americans say their views are already locked in. There’s been essentially no change in the number who feel President Trump deserves to be impeached since last month, and now […] Read more »