New Rasmussen Reports polling shows that 55% of voters believe the impeachment push against President Trump made him stronger, and 62% of voters think Democrats should move on from trying to impeach the president.
The survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted between Feb. 6 through Feb. 9 and released Monday suggests that a strong majority of voters believe that Trump has benefited from impeachment; that sentiment was even expressed by a plurality of people who described themselves as liberals.
Only 16% of voters believe that Trump is weaker because of impeachment.
Forty-eight percent of Democratic voters want House Democrats to continue trying to remove Trump from office. However, 43% of Democratic voters want to focus on other things, and 70% of voters who don’t identify as Democrat or Republican agree that the country should move on.
Trump was acquitted on both articles of impeachment against him earlier this month by votes of 52-48 and 53-47, which were well short of the 67 votes needed to remove him from office.
House impeachment manager Jerry Nadler has expressed a desire to continue investigating Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian leaders, despite the Senate acquittal.
Nadler said last week that it was “likely” the House will subpoena former national security adviser John Bolton.
“I think it’s likely, yes,” Nadler told reporters on Feb. 5. “We’ll want to call Bolton.”
Some Republicans in Congress have also hinted the Ukraine controversy will remain in the headlines.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said earlier this month that the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by fellow Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, would call on the Ukraine whistleblower to testify.
“I want to find out how all this crap started,” Graham said about the origins of the impeachment process began by the House.
