A large majority of Democrats support impeaching President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE’s report, though the prospect remains unpopular overall.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released Wednesday shows that 70 percent of Democratic respondents supported impeaching Trump in the wake the Mueller report’s findings, compared to only 40 percent of independents and 5 percent of Republicans. About 39 percent of respondents overall support impeaching Trump.

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The poll comes as House Democrats and 2020 presidential candidates grapple with the prospect of attempting to remove the president, which could excite the Democratic base but alienate independents and Trump voters the party hopes to flip next year.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi Nancy PelosiHoyer: House should vote on COVID-19 aid — with or without a bipartisan deal Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose at Supreme Court McCarthy threatens motion to oust Pelosi if she moves forward with impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) and others in party leadership have attempted to tamp down on impeachment calls from rank-and-file members, instead highlighting a string of oversight investigations the House is conducting into the White House.

Overall, 48 percent of adults in the survey think Democrats should continue investigating Russia's election interference, while 46 percent think the probes should end.

“There's a political risk in talking about moving ahead with impeachment proceedings,” Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll, told NPR. “There's not a huge appetite for that going forward.”

Despite the overall opposition to impeachment, a majority of Americans say that Mueller’s probe into Russia's election interference and possible obstruction of justice leaves questions that have yet to be answered.

About 58 percent of poll respondents said questions still exist, while 33 percent said the probe cleared Trump of any wrongdoing. However, 53 percent of registered voters polled said Mueller’s report is not an important factor when deciding who they will vote for in 2020.

Mueller’s probe did not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Moscow during Russia’s 2016 efforts to meddle in the presidential election. The special counsel declined to bring charges against the president over obstruction of justice, citing existing Justice Department guidelines that a sitting president cannot be indicted and saying it is Congress’s duty to investigate Trump if it sees fit.

The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll surveyed 1,017 adults and 840 registered voters from April 24-29 and has margins of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points and plus or minus 4.1 points for those groups respectively.