Will Today’s Hearing Move Public Opinion?

Nathaniel Rakich: “Today’s hearing strikes me as having the potential to actually change people’s minds about impeachment. So far, we don’t have a lot of evidence that the hearings have done so.”

“We’ve only seen a few polls conducted after last week’s hearings. The Economist/YouGov found that Americans support the House impeaching Trump by 5 percentage points, which was virtually unchanged from the 6-point lead impeachment held in their pre-hearings poll. And while Morning Consult/Politico did find that net support for impeachment has gone from 8 points to 4 points, an ABC News/Ipsos poll found that, among those who made up their minds about impeachment after last week’s hearings, 60 percent came down on the pro-impeachment side.”