What does the rest of the country think?

This morning’s episode of “The Daily” followed Representative Elissa Slotkin, a moderate Democrat, as she went to three forums in her mid-Michigan district — including one at the East Lansing pie bakery where I worked the 5 a.m. shift in high school! Her takeaway: Many voters want an investigation that feels deliberate. “There’s no need to come out of a meeting where you’ve heard some new testimony and just start talking to the press about how this seals the deal for you, and you’re done,” she said.

To follow up on the episode, I called my colleague Emily Cochrane this afternoon just after she landed in San Antonio, where she was planning to cover a run of town-hall-style events with Republican members of Congress to see how Texans were responding to the inquiry .

Emily, you wrote this week about what constituents in three New York congressional districts are saying about impeachment. Not everyone was cheering for it — many wanted to talk about other things. What was on their minds?

With the Democratic voters I spoke to, they were curious about impeachment and glad their members of Congress endorsed it. They wanted to rip the Band-Aid off, but they also wanted to know how policy was going to get done. Is there going to be some kind of gun reform? What are you doing to combat climate change? There had been a push to cancel this congressional break . But House Democratic leadership pushed back, saying that people need ed to get home to explain impeachment to their constituents and assure them that other work was getting done.