Half of American voters support impeaching President Trump and removing him from office, while 41 percent oppose impeachment, according to a Fox News poll released Sunday. That's a tiny uptick from late October, when Fox News' pollsters found support for impeaching and removing Trump at 49 percent. The steadiness of those numbers is "fairly remarkable considering all that happened between those two polls," Fox News says. Trump's approval rating, meanwhile, has risen 2 percentage points to 45 percent, with 53 percent disapproving of his job performance.
There is a clear partisan split in the impeachment polling — 85 percent of democrats and a new high of 45 percent of independents favor impeaching and removing Trump, while 84 percent of Republicans disapprove. Most voters said Trump has done potentially impeachable things, the poll found, including 53 perfect who believed he abused the power of his office. A 48 percent plurality said he obstructed Congress, and 47 percent agreed Trump held up military aid to Ukraine to pressure its president to investigate his political rivals.
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