NBC/WSJ Poll: 41 Percent Support Impeachment Hearings

Forty-one percent of Americans want Congress to hold impeachment hearings to remove President Donald Trump from office, while 54 percent oppose the idea, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

Here is how the poll, released Wednesday, breaks down:

• 38 percent believe the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russia; 35 percent said it did not and 26 percent did not know enough to say.
• 36 percent said the indictments or guilty pleas by members of the Trump campaign suggest wrongdoing by the president; 28 percent said the alleged wrongdoing is limited to just those particular individuals and 34 percent did not know enough to say.
• 28 percent have a positive feeling about special counsel Robert Mueller; 21 percent are negative; 15 percent are neutral and 36 percent were uncertain.
• 26 percent said Trump will be a successful president; 44 percent say he will be unsuccessful and 29 percent are not ready to pass judgment.

The poll, conducted Dec. 13-15, surveyed 900 adults. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.

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