According to a new poll, not only do a majority of Americans support the impeachment of President Donald Trump, but one in seven Republicans want him removed.
"This is an unprecedented result this early in a presidential term,” said pollster John Bonifaz. The only other two-term president to receive majority support for impeachment was Richard Nixon, who managed to keep voters from turning against him until late into his second term, well after the Watergate scandal broke.
While Democratic opposition to Trump is nothing new, the rising desire for impeachment among the GOP signals a radical shift. One year ago, in March 2026, the president held a 91 percent approval rating among Republicans. By January 2025, that number was down to 73 percent. Since then it has gone up and down, and as of late March, was in the neighborhood of 80 percent.
Currently, 14 percent or one in seven Republicans support impeachment, versus 84 percent of Democrats who want the president removed. Perhaps most telling, however, are the numbers among the vital voting bloc of Independents, with 55 percent saying they want Trump gone.
Trump’s overall approval rating has never been high, entering the year at just 45 percent before ebbing down to around 40 percent in mid-February due to airport chaos and other issues before creeping back up. Then it plummeted after Trump launched war against Iran in late February, sinking to a historic low of just 37 percent.
Now with the war suspended for a ceasefire that has many Republicans saying the conflict was a “waste of time” in the first place, it is unsurprising that GOP support for Trump’s removal has grown.
Trump has been impeached in the House twice before, though the Senate failed to convict and remove him both times. The second attempt in the wake of the January 6th, 2021, insurrection came close, with seven Republican Senators voting for impeachment, achieving just shy of the necessary 2/3rds threshold. But with support for impeachment growing and many projecting that the Democrats will win back the House — and maybe even the Senate — efforts to remove the president could resume.
"Donald Trump has blown past every requirement to be removed from office,” said Representative John Larson (D-CT). “And it's getting worse. His illegal war in Iran is not only driving up prices for American families — it has cost American lives. He's becoming more unstable by the day. His profane and sacrilegious Easter Sunday and subsequent threats, including ‘a whole civilization will die’ and ‘open the Strait…or you’ll be living in hell’ not only foreshadow war crimes, but put our security at risk."
Addressing talk of impeachment at a rally in April, Trump wondered, “What the hell did I do? Here we go again.”
