A group of liberal activists is gunning for a third impeachment of President Trump and says they’ve got polling to back it up.
Anti-Trump Democrats on Monday promoted a new poll they say shows an historic number of likely voters want Congress to impeach President Trump, a little more than one year into his return to office.
Those favoring impeachment include 14% of Republicans, 55% of independents and 84% of Democrats, according to Lake Research Partners, a firm that polled for President Biden.
Free Speech for People, a left-wing group that sponsored the poll, has called for Mr. Trump’s impeachment since January 20, 2025, the day the president began his second White House term.
Now that Democrats are on the verge of potentially recapturing the House majority, the activist group is stepping up a campaign to push lawmakers into launching yet another impeachment proceeding against Mr. Trump if they regain the gavel in January.
The group has collected hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition calling for Mr. Trump’s impeachment for dozens of reasons, starting with the claim that Mr. Trump is not a legitimate president because of his second impeachment connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The majority of voters are on board with a third impeachment, the group’s founder, John Bonifaz, told reporters Monday.
Mr. Bonifaz cited the poll by Lake Research Partners conducted in March.
It showed voters supported impeaching Mr. Trump a third time by an overall margin of 52% to 40%.
“The results are quite startling,” Davin Mermin, a pollster at Lake Research Partners, said. “To be essentially 14 months into this presidential term and have a clear majority of Americans say they’re ready to impeach the president is a fairly remarkable finding. We wanted to make sure that they shared that with everyone.”
President Biden faced growing support for impeachment during his presidency following the investigation into his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals and the president’s involvement in them.
A Morning Consult Poll released in September of 2023 found 48% of voters supported an impeachment inquiry, including 36% of Democrats, 63% of Republicans and nearly half of independents.
Mr. Mermin said the new Lake Research poll “appears to be the earliest in a presidential term that you’ve seen [the] majority of Americans in favor of impeachment.”
The Lake Research poll prefaced its question of impeachment to likely voters by citing House Democrats who want to remove Mr. Trump from office “for violating Americans’ constitutional rights and the law, including actions by ICE in the U.S. and the war he started with Iran.”
Rep. Al Green, a Texas Democrat and leading proponent of impeachment, twice called up a vote to impeach Mr. Trump in 2025. The resolution was tabled both times, but House Democrats increasingly backed impeachment.
In the Dec. 11 vote to bring up articles of impeachment against Mr. Trump, 140 Democrats voted against tabling it, nearly doubling the number from six months earlier.
Mr. Trump was impeached twice during his first term under a Democrat-led House. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, has dodged questions about impeaching Mr. Trump if his party wins control of the House.
Mr. Jeffries, along with other members of the Democratic leadership, voted “present” on the December vote to table Mr. Green’s impeachment resolution. Democratic leaders said in a joint statement that impeachment “traditionally requires a comprehensive investigative process,” which has not been conducted by the Republican-led House.
“Donald Trump’s out-of-control behavior continues to put the health, safety and economic well-being of the American people at risk,” Democratic leaders said.
Free Speech for People has targeted several Trump administration officials for impeachment, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
For the president or anyone in his cabinet, a vote to impeach only results in removal if two-thirds of the Senate votes to convict, which has never happened in U.S. history.
In addition to Mr. Trump, Presidents Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached.
