Elated, furious, wary: Impeachment divides voters, like everything Trump
DAVENPORT, Iowa — Kristy Schneeberger, a Democrat in eastern Iowa, said it was about time that Democrats in Congress moved to impeach President Donald Trump. “No one is above the law,” she said.
Republican supporters of Trump, as well as some moderates who had crossed over to vote for him in 2016, were generally unmoved by the possibility that Trump committed impeachable crimes. The new impeachment inquiry led by House Democratic leaders, they said, was just one more overblown political crisis that Trump could weather and use to rally his base in 2020.
Story continuesFor years, polling has shown that a majority of Americans have opposed impeaching Trump and considered it a theoretical topic that mattered less than real-life concerns like health care and job creation. Whether that will change, and what happens if it doesn’t, are some of many factors that will shape the political consequences for both parties.
While some Democratic voters said Trump had abused his power by pressing Ukraine’s leader for an investigation of Biden, Republican voters largely dismissed the new details that poured out of Washington on Wednesday. “A nothingburger,” said Michael Bower, 38, of Seattle. Even so, Callaham, who usually votes for Republicans for president, has his doubts about the impeachment proceedings, which he believes distract from the real issues the country is facing, like immigration and infrastructure.
Many Democratic voters saw impeachment as a high-risk political wager and said they were torn about whether their leaders had acted too hastily.
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