More than three in five Wash­ing­to­ni­ans dis­ap­prove of Don­ald Trump’s job per­for­mance and almost that many want the House to impeach him, a new statewide sur­vey con­duct­ed for the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute has found.

61% of like­ly 2019 Wash­ing­ton State vot­ers said they dis­ap­proved of Trump’s job per­for­mance, a fig­ure iden­ti­cal to our find­ing from last May. 36% said they approved of Trump’s job per­for­mance, and 4% were not sure.

Asked about impeach­ment, 58% of respon­dents said they favored impeach­ing Trump, while 38% were opposed. 4% were not sure.

Our sur­vey of nine hun­dred like­ly 2019 Wash­ing­ton State vot­ers was in the field from Tues­day, Octo­ber 22nd through Wednes­day, Octo­ber 23rd.

The poll uti­lizes a blend­ed method­ol­o­gy inclu­sive of cell­phone only vot­ers, with 53% of respon­dents par­tic­i­pat­ing via land­line and 43% par­tic­i­pat­ing via text.

The poll was con­duct­ed by Pub­lic Pol­i­cy Polling for the North­west Pro­gres­sive Insti­tute, and has a mar­gin of error of +/- 3.3% at the 95% con­fi­dence level.

Here’s our job per­for­mance ques­tion and responses:

QUESTION: Do you approve or dis­ap­prove of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s job performance?

ANSWERS:

• Dis­ap­prove: 61%
• Approve: 36%
• Not sure: 4%

Note that per­cent­ages do not add to one hun­dred due to rounding.

Here are the num­bers by region:

QUESTION: Do you approve or dis­ap­prove of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s job performance?

ANSWERS:

• King Coun­ty
  • Dis­ap­prove: 78%
  • Approve: 19%
  • Not sure: 3%
• North Puget Sound 
  • Dis­ap­prove: 54%
  • Approve: 41%
  • Not sure: 5%
• South Sound
  • Dis­ap­prove: 54%
  • Approve: 41%
  • Not sure: 5%
• Olympic Penin­su­la and South­west Washington 
  • Dis­ap­prove: 61%
  • Approve: 38%
  • Not sure: 1%
• East­ern Washington 
  • Dis­ap­prove: 46%
  • Approve: 49%
  • Not sure: 5%

If you’d like to see the num­bers from our ear­li­er find­ing, they are avail­able in this Cas­ca­dia Advo­cate blog post from May 2019.

While the over­all num­ber dis­ap­prov­ing of Trump’s job per­for­mance stayed the same at 61%, there were some changes at the region­al level.

Dis­ap­proval of Trump in King Coun­ty shot up to 78% while declin­ing in North and South Puget Sound. Trump’s approval also slid in the Olympia Penin­su­la and South­west Wash­ing­ton while slight­ly rebound­ing in East­ern Washington.

Nation­wide polls show that more Amer­i­cans also dis­ap­prove of Trump’s job per­for­mance than approve, although the dis­par­i­ty is less pro­nounced than it is in Demo­c­ra­t­ic-con­trolled states such as Washington.

• Civiqs: Trump job performance
• Huff­Post Poll­ster: Trump job performance
• FiveThir­tyEight: Trump job performance
• Real­Clear­Pol­i­tics: Trump job performance

Wash­ing­to­ni­ans who sup­port impeach­ment are about as numer­ous as those who dis­ap­prove of Trump’s job per­for­mance. Here’s our impeach­ment question:

QUESTION: Do you sup­port or oppose impeach­ing Don­ald Trump?

ANSWERS:

• Sup­port: 58%
• Oppose: 38%
• Not sure: 4%

Here are the num­bers by region:

QUESTION: Do you sup­port or oppose impeach­ing Don­ald Trump?

ANSWERS:

• King Coun­ty
  • Sup­port: 71%
  • Oppose: 22%
  • Not sure: 7%
• North Puget Sound 
  • Sup­port: 50%
  • Oppose: 46%
  • Not sure: 4%
• South Sound
  • Sup­port: 52%
  • Oppose: 45%
  • Not sure: 3%
• Olympic Penin­su­la and South­west Washington 
  • Sup­port: 59%
  • Oppose: 38%
  • Not sure: 3%
• East­ern Washington 
  • Sup­port: 48%
  • Oppose: 50%
  • Not sure: 2%

Note that the mar­gin of error is high­er for the region­al subsamples.

It is notable that a major­i­ty of the elec­torate sup­ports impeach­ing the law­less Don­ald Trump in every region of the state except for East­ern Wash­ing­ton, where vot­ers are almost even­ly divid­ed on the question.

All of the Democ­rats in Wash­ing­ton’s con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion have announced sup­port for an impeach­ment inquiry, while none of the Repub­li­cans (Jaime Her­rera-Beut­ler, Dan New­house, Cathy McMor­ris Rodgers) have fol­lowed suit.

Her­rera-Beut­ler is the only one of the three who rep­re­sents a slice of Wash­ing­ton State that’s west of the Cas­cades. Our research indi­cates her con­stituents aren’t hap­py with Trump and want him impeached. Yet Her­rera-Beut­ler is still vot­ing in lock­step with Trump and top House Repub­li­can Kevin McCarthy.

Her­rera-Beut­ler is also the only Repub­li­can left who rep­re­sents a dis­trict that bor­ders the Pacif­ic Ocean in the con­tigu­ous forty-eight states. The Repub­li­can Par­ty con­sid­ers her among its most vul­ner­a­ble incum­bents and has clas­si­fied her cam­paign as need­ing help from the par­ty’s House cam­paign arm.

Chal­lenger Car­olyn Long turned heads around the coun­try last cycle by seem­ing­ly com­ing out of nowhere to give Her­rera-Beut­ler her first cred­i­ble chal­lenge in a long time (pun intend­ed). Her­rera-Beut­ler’s share of the vote decreased from 61.75% in 2016 to 52.67%% in 2018. That per­for­mance spurred Long to seek a rematch.

With an ear­li­er start and increased name recog­ni­tion, Long has an even bet­ter chance of win­ning in 2020. She will also ben­e­fit from the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty mak­ing WA-03 its top elec­toral tar­get, hav­ing already picked up WA-08 in 2018.

We imag­ine that as the Demo­c­ra­t­ic impeach­ment inquiry moves along, sup­port for impeach­ment will con­tin­ue to grow, both in Wash­ing­ton and across the country.

The evi­dence against Trump is already com­pelling — it shows that he abused his pow­er and vio­lat­ed his oath of office. Vot­ers don’t like that. They want Trump held account­able. It’s bad enough that one branch of our fed­er­al gov­ern­ment isn’t func­tion­ing well — for our coun­try to emerge from this mess, we need our sys­tem of checks and bal­ances to work. The House must do its job and impeach Trump.