Maybe the President is right that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose any support with Republican voters, as he claimed on the campaign trail in January 2016.
How, then, do we explain why the exact opposite is happening in the polls this week?
While the Republicans left in Congress are trying to stay out of it, Republican voters aren’t so quick to dismiss the whistleblower’s allegations as they were to move on from the Mueller Report or the “Access Hollywood” tape. Nearly 1 in 4 such voters approve of House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, per a CBS News poll. And almost half of GOP voters either want to “wait and see the facts” or already think Trump has done something wrong.
Most surprisingly, support impeachment has risen 8% among Republicans since May, according to a new poll from CNN.
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