Elon University Poll measures N.C. attitudes toward impeachment, potential 2028 presidential candidates

With Democrats winning control of both the U.S. House and Senate in last week’s election, one of the looming questions relates to the potential impeachment of President Trump and other members of the Trump administration.

Trump was impeached by the House twice during his first term in office and was acquitted both times by the Senate.

Prior to the election, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and other Democratic leaders developed plans to investigate Trump, his family and his administration over charges of corruption and abuse of power. Jeffries said he and other Democrats had neither ruled out, nor ruled in filing articles of impeachment.

In a pre-election Elon University Poll, 47% of North Carolinians said they would react either “very” or “somewhat” positively to an impeachment effort, compared with 33% who said they would react negatively and 21% who said their reaction would be neither positive nor negative.

A large majority of Democrats (78%) reacted positively to the prospect of impeaching Trump, while 48% of Independents and 17% of Republicans said they had a positive reaction to impeachment.

The survey of 800 North Carolina adults was conducted Sept. 29-Oct. 8, 2026, and has a margin of error of +/-4.03%.