Donald Trump is facing a stunning political crisis at home. A new poll shows that a majority of Americans want him impeached, and a significant chunk of his own voters agree.
The survey, conducted by Strength in Numbers/Verasight and published April 22, found that 55 percent of U.S. adults back a House impeachment vote, while 37 percent oppose it and 8 percent are undecided. Pollster G. Elliott Morris said the net result puts Trump “in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak of the Watergate scandal in August 1974.”
The most striking finding is what the data says about Trump’s own base. Among the 77 million Americans who voted for him in 2024, 21 percent now want him impeached. That translates to roughly one in every five of the people who put him back in office. Among Republicans overall, 21 percent support impeachment, while 72 percent oppose it.
Intensity gap spells trouble for Trump
The poll also reveals a lopsided enthusiasm split. According to the Strength in Numbers data, 45 percent of all adults strongly support impeachment, compared to just 30 percent who strongly oppose it. That 15-point intensity gap means the people pushing for Trump’s removal are not only more numerous but more committed than those defending him.
Independents back impeachment at 50 percent to 28 percent. Even non-voters, a group that leaned slightly toward Trump over Kamala Harris in 2024, support impeachment at 53 percent to 25 percent. Democrats back it overwhelmingly, at 88 percent in favor and just 8 percent opposed, The Daily Beast reported.
Multiple polls confirm the trend
The Verasight findings are not an outlier. A separate poll conducted by Lake Research Partners for progressive organization Free Speech For People in late March found 52 percent of registered voters backing impeachment, with 40 percent opposed. That survey, which covered 790 voters, also found 14 percent of Republicans in support of removal, Newsweek reported.
The White House has dismissed the impeachment push. Spokesperson Davis Ingle previously told Newsweek that Democrats “have been talking about impeaching President Trump since before he was even sworn into office.”
Congress holds the roadblock
Despite the poll numbers, Trump’s removal remains a long shot. Republicans still control the House, and no GOP member has publicly called for impeachment. Connecticut Democrat John Larson has introduced 13 articles of impeachment, with more than 85 House members now publicly backing either impeachment or the 25th Amendment route. The White House reportedly called that resolution “pathetic.”
Prediction markets currently reflect the split reality: Kalshi gives only a 13 percent chance of impeachment before January 2027, but a 67 percent chance before January 2028. The Polymarket figure sits at 65 percent for any point before Trump’s term ends.
Conservative media voices turn on Trump
The poll results land amid a broader conservative revolt against Trump, fueled largely by his conduct during the Iran war. Tucker Carlson has publicly apologized for helping elect him.
“It’s, like, in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now,” Carlson said. “So I do think it’s like a moment to wrestle with our own consciences. You know, we’ll be tormented by it for a long time. I will be, and I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people, and it was not intentional.”
Carlson joins Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and others who have publicly broken with Trump in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Trump’s behavior on Truth Social, including a profanity-laced attack plan leaked to the press, has only added more fuel to the fire.
What comes next
Even if Democrats win back the House in November 2026, removal from office still requires a two-thirds Senate majority, a threshold that has never been reached in U.S. history. Syracuse University political scientist Grant Davis Reeher told Newsweek he is skeptical the public mood fully supports going that far.
“I think the public is tired of this level of political combat, and it’s obvious that impeachment won’t lead anywhere beyond the House,” Reeher said.
Still, for a president who once boasted of unbreakable loyalty from his base, a situation where one in five of his own voters want him removed from office represents a dramatic political shift. As Trump continues feuding with critics and the press, the midterms now loom as the next real test of whether that erosion grows.
