Republicans in Congress have tried to discredit the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry by arguing that it distracts Congress from its real duties. One Republican-aligned group recently released a poll of 1,600 voters in four congressional districts that suggested Americans “prioritize issues over impeachment.”

But when we look at data on revealed priorities from people all over the country, we see something different. In reality, there are few things facing the nation that anyone, regardless of party, believes are a higher priority right now.

Most people would give up their preferred outcomes on health care, the environment or taxes if it meant getting what they want on impeachment. It is an important issue for almost everyone.

Starting in July, U.C.L.A. partnered with the Democracy Fund on a large-scale project called Nationscape that involves surveying more than 6,000 people every week. The surveys are fielded by Lucid, a market-research company. Interviews are conducted online on a sample that is constructed to be representative of the American population. Nationscape has returned numbers that are consistent with other polls in the same period on common questions like presidential approval and right track/wrong track. For example, a Monmouth poll (61 percent), a YouGov/Economist poll (54 percent) and Nationscape (56 percent) all recently reported that more than half of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.