A new national poll finds that 55% of US adults nowsupport impeaching Donald Trump, placing public sentiment against the president in territory last seen during the height of Richard Nixon's Watergate crisis.
TheStrength In Numbers/Verasight survey, conducted between 10 and 14 April 2026 and published by data journalist G. Elliott Morris on 22 April, polled 1,514 US adults with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points. Thirty-seven per cent of respondents opposed impeachment, while 8% were unsure.
The results come as more than 85 House members have now backed either impeachment or the invocation of the 25th Amendment, and assenior Republican supporters outside Congress have publicly broken with the president over his conduct during the Iran war.
The topline figure, 55% in favour, carries a meaningful intensity dimension that the raw number alone does not convey. According to Morris's analysis of thefull crosstabs, 45% of all US adults say they strongly support impeachment. By comparison, only 30% say they strongly oppose it. That 15-point intensity gap suggests the Americans who want Trump removed are not only more numerous than those who do not, but more committed.
The poll found that all but three major demographic groups support impeachment. Seniors oppose it by a margin of 47% to 51%. Republicans oppose it, as expected. Trump's own 2024 voters oppose it overall, though with a striking caveat: 21% of the people who voted for Trump less than two years ago say the House should now vote to impeach him. That figure amounts to roughly one in five of the voters who returned him to office.
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Independents, who are often the decisive bloc in American electoral politics, back impeachment at 50% to 28%, a 22-point margin in favour. Non-voters, a group that may have leaned marginally toward Trump over Kamala Harris in 2024, support impeachment at 53% to 25%.
The poll's demographic breakdown indicates that younger age cohorts broadly support impeachment, while seniors represent the only age group opposing it. The poll's published text does not provide specific percentage crosstabs for under-35 or under-45 voters, and those figures are not reproduced here.
The historical context surrounding the 55% figure is significant. In the days before Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on 9 August 1974,Gallup recorded 58% of Americanswanting him removed from office. The April 2026 reading puts Trump just three percentage points below that ceiling, in what Morris describes as 'Nixon resignation territory.'
The comparison is not perfectly symmetrical: the Strength In Numbers poll asked whether the House should vote to impeach, a lower procedural bar than the 'impeach and remove' framing Gallup used in 1974. Morris acknowledges this distinction in his analysis.
Source: International Business Times UK
