The Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll shows 55% of respondents support an impeachment vote against President Trump, with a net +18 number that pollster G. Elliot Morris likened to Nixon’s Watergate-era lows. About 21% of Republican voters and Trump 2024 supporters back impeachment, while Democrats overwhelmingly favor it (88%). Critics cite erratic behavior, Truth Social tirades, and the Feb. 28 strike on Iran as factors driving concern.
New Poll: 55% Back Impeaching Trump — Even Some GOP Voters Say Yes
A fifth of Trump's own MAGA voters want to see him removed from office. / Kylie Cooper / REUTERS
A new Strength in Numbers/Verasight poll finds a growing share of Americans — including a notable minority of President Donald Trump’s own supporters — favor the U.S. House voting to impeach him.
Key Findings
The survey reports 55% of respondents support an impeachment vote, 37% oppose it and 8% are unsure. Pollster G. Elliot Morris said the survey’s net +18 figure places Trump near the approval lows Richard Nixon experienced during the Watergate crisis in August 1974.
Trump got some shut-eye at his latest Oval Office event. The aging president's behavior has made critics question his mental health. / Kylie Cooper / REUTERS
“That net +18 verdict puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974,” Morris said.
Notably, roughly one in five Republican voters — and about 21% of people who voted for Trump in 2024 — said they would support a third impeachment, while about 72–73% of those groups opposed it. The poll’s authors emphasize that this translates to roughly one in five people who helped return him to the White House now actively wanting him removed.
Democratic voters overwhelmingly back impeachment, with 88% in favor and just 8% opposed. The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Carlson, at his core a skeptic of Trump, now says he regrets supporting him in the 2024 election. / Andrew Kelly / REUTERS
Context And Reactions
Observers link the shifting numbers to concerns about the president’s recent conduct, including profanity-laced late-night and early-morning posts on Truth Social, which critics say raise questions about his mental fitness. Several House Democrats have publicly urged invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president.
Trump has also lost ground on issues that buoyed him in 2024 — notably immigration and the economy — according to the poll’s analysis. High-profile conservative figures have publicly broken with the president following his Feb. 28 military action against Iran.
Commentators such as Megyn Kelly and Tucker Carlson have criticized the president’s decisions and rhetoric. This week, Carlson apologized to viewers, saying he had "misled" them into supporting Trump in the prior election and expressing regret for the consequences.
Bottom line: The poll signals political vulnerability for Trump, with an unexpected chunk of his base open to impeachment and growing bipartisan concern about his behavior and policy choices.
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