NEW YORK: The number of Americans calling for impeachment against President Donald Trump went up by 5 percentage points to 45 percent since mid-April, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reiterated that the leaders of the investigative committees in the Democratic-controlled House were taking a step-by-step approach at a time when senior Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives are wrestling with whether to launch impeachment proceedings.
“This is very methodical, it’s very Constitution-based,” Pelosi said. “We won’t go any faster than the facts take us, or any slower than the facts take us.”
In addition to the 45 percent pro-impeachment figure, the Monday poll found that 42 percent of Americans said Trump should not be impeached. The rest said they had no opinion.
In comparison, an April 18-19 survey found that 40 percent of all Americans wanted to impeach Trump.
The latest poll showed stronger support for impeachment among Democrats and independents.
It also showed that 57 percent of adults agreed that continued investigations into Trump would interfere with important government business. That included about half of all Democrats and three-quarters of all Republicans.
After a nearly two-year investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of Trump and Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, House Democrats are pursuing multiple inquiries into Trump’s presidency, his family and his business interests.
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