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In a new sign of how support is growing for the impeachment effort launched last week, a poll out Thursday has found that 45% of Americans believe the House of Representatives should vote to impeach President Donald Trump.
Some 38% of respondents to the USA Today/Ipsos survey said the House should not vote to impeach him, and 17% said they didn’t know.
Further, 44% of Americans think the Senate, which would be expected to hold a trial of the president after a House impeachment vote, should vote to convict Trump, while 35% said the Senate shouldn’t and 21% said they didn’t know, according to the poll.
The survey shows a noteworthy partisan split on the issue, with 74% of Democrats favoring a House vote to impeach Trump, compared with 17% of Republicans and 37% of independents.
The USA Today/Ipsos poll comes a week after a Morning Consult survey found 43% of voters believed Congress should start impeachment proceedings against Trump, up from 36% support in a Sept. 20-22 survey.
A Vox average of polls puts support for impeachment at 46.6% as of Thursday, with the percentage against at 44.9%.
The USA Today/Ipsos poll was conducted on Tuesday and Wednesday, surveying 1,006 Americans and featuring what Ipsos calls a “credibility interval” of 3.5 percentage points.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the impeachment inquiry last week, amid a growing outcry over Trump’s July move to press Ukraine’s president to investigate Hunter Biden and his father, the former vice president and current Democratic presidential front runner, Joe Biden.
Read more: Top Republican defends Trump: ‘There is nothing in that transcript that rises to impeachment’
And see: ‘That’s a coverup,’ says Pelosi, blasting alleged move by White House to ‘lock down’ Ukraine call
