A 58 percent majority of Americans say House Democrats were right to begin an impeachment inquiry of President Trump, and a 49 percent plurality say the House should vote to remove him from office, according to a new Washington Post-Schar School poll. Support for impeachment has jumped significantly across the board since the White House released a transcript of Trump's July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in late September. There is a clear partisan split in the results, but 28 percent of Republicans said they support the House impeachment investigation and 18 percent support voting to remove him from office. The Post and George Mason University's Schar School conducted the poll by phone Oct. 1-6 among 1,007 U.S. adults; the margin of sampling error for the entire survey is ±3.5 percentage points.

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