areas of the country. showing counties in the highlight of the bars come up the colors show the margin of victory for the winter in the 2016 presidential election. as you can see the parts of the country represented by these democratic impeachment leaders voted overwhelmingly for hillary clinton during the last election. also during the 2016 presidential election, lawyer campaign contributions tilted 9, 3 percent for trump. the situation is essentially the same at law schools around the country including those represented on the panel here today. now professor turley, i would like to turn to the partisan process with the impeachment proceedings. this is how the effort was described in the 1974 staff report. we were talking about the initiation of the impeachment increase. as this action was nonpartisan. it was supported by the overwhelming majority of both political parties. and it was. regarding the authorization of the clinton impeachment inquiry.
a vehicle. perhaps, at least based on what we are today, forgetting where it outside the circle that force the release of president conversation. he spoke of to people outside of the warehouse about the call, in between the time he went to the nsc general counsel eisenberg and the time that eisenberg came back to him and said, don t tell anybody else about this. he went to george kent at the state department, who was first witnessing these impeachment increase. proceedings. the public ones, at least, last wednesday. and he talked to some deals in the intelligence community. we saw, as devin nunes tried to drill down on who that person was, adam schiff stopped all of that and said, we are not going to do anything that could potentially unmask the whistleblower, which got a lot of people in the administration because they were texting me wondering, was he the conduit through which the information got the whistleblower? not necessarily the person you talk directly to the whistleblow
washington, d.c. to be there with the house democratic leadership, bringing them together and caucus members together, to provide transparency to this process. john, how significant is it that 18% of republicans say they support the impeachment and removal? well, i think it is interesting that 82% of democrats say they support impeachment, but 82% of republicans say they oppose it. 18% of democrats say they support impeachment but 82% of republicans say they oppose it. and 18% is not a large number. it is a slight increase in suppr impeachment or an impeachment inquiry from republican voters in multiple polls. and i think as the impeachment inquiry becomes more public, we could see support for impeachment increase. the house vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry on thursday was a signal we re going to see it become more public and the democrats are going to lay out their case for impeachment. and if they re able to convince enough americans, then yeah
necessarily makes a difference, but it could minnesota will be somewhat competitive. the president will contest for it. have the he has the resources. minnesota is a tough haul for him, as we saw we suffer republicans in 2018. it s very tough. harris: i want to screw to this next thing. hold on one second. can we show the point which of 64% are democratic voters to his allegations about joe biden s dealings or his son hunter s dealings in ukraine don t matter to them in the democratic primary? they were wearing t-shirts, where is hunter? last night. the impeachment increase not necessarily good thing for the president, has he seen with the latest numbers. on the other hand it is causing the former vice president a lot of trouble. this could end up sowing a lot of doubts among democratic primary voters but his likability as they worry president trump turns them into another hillary clinton.
independent, the magic number to pass anything is 217 meaning democrats could use 18 of their own and have the votes to impeach. independent michigan congressman justin amash favorite impeachment, that means they could lose 19 of their own and still impeach. the problem is there are 31 house democrats who represent districts donald trump won in 2016 meaning at least 12 democrats on turf friendly to the president would have to vote for impeachment. democrats need polls to catch up. a new cbs poll finds 55% of americans back the impeachment increase was a to be at poll shows 47% back the real deal and find 56% of voters believe lawmakers supporting it are doing so based on partisan politics, not facts. congress is on recess, lawmakers are conducting townhall s. what they hear from constituents could dictate where impeachment goes after the break.