Poll: Dem support for impeachment rises, Trump approval steady

The shift on impeachment stems mostly from a rebound in support for it among Democrats — 76% favor it currently, up from 69% in April. Whites who hold college degrees have also increased their support for impeachment. In surveys in April and March, fewer than 3 in 10 in that group favored proceedings, but that number has now climbed to 41%.

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April’s poll, conducted after the public release of a redacted version of the report from special counsel Robert Mueller, suggested the report had done little to move the public in favor of impeachment, and may have increased the share who felt Democrats in Congress were going too far in investigating the president.

Slightly fewer now say that Democrats are overreaching in their investigations of Trump (40% feel that way in the new poll, compared with 44% in April), and a majority continue to feel that Trump is not doing enough to cooperate with those investigations (53%, was 54% in April). Surprisingly, the softening on whether Democrats are overreaching seems to come largely among Republicans: 84% said they were doing too much in April, it’s 76% now.

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