It’s been nearly 3 weeks since House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi announced a formal inquiry impeachment (charge the holder of public office with misconduct, ultimately bringing them out of public office) against President Donald Trump on September 24th, which was due to the president’s pressuring of Ukrainian government to open an investigation against President Joe Biden, along with his son, Hunter Biden. 

House Democrats further escalated this investigation, issuing subpoenas (a written command to have someone attend court) to several administration officials and the associates of Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Despite this, The White House vowed to not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry, finding it as partisan probe. 

Despite the clashes between the legislative and executive branches, public opinion polling has shown noticeable shifts between votes on the impeachment. Partisan division is still persistent, with the Democrats and Republicans splitting the votes on the inquiry. 

As of October 10th,  2019, the average of the impeachment polls have been calculated by FiveThirtyEight (a website focusing mainly on public opinion poll analysis, politics, economics, and sports blogging) that shows 49.3% of respondents supporting impeachment, and 43.5% not supporting it.