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In late May, with a tornado warning in effect, about a hundred people showed up at a town hall with Rep. Madeleine Dean in her southeast Pennsylvania district.

“We weren’t eight minutes into the doggone thing … when somebody said, ‘When are you going to go for impeachment?’” Dean recalled in a recent interview with BuzzFeed News. “When I made my explanation that I had made my decision for an impeachment inquiry, the room applauded. I think it was 90-plus percent — 97% — of people in that room were very pleased.”

Dean’s experience in her district isn’t unique. More than 70 members of the House of Representatives have come out in support of an inquiry into impeaching President Trump, including some of the most electorally vulnerable members of the Democratic Caucus. That’s all happening in spite of the fact that the party’s campaign arm has repeatedly argued that voters don’t care about impeachment and that pursuing an inquiry could lose representatives their seats.
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And Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia said it’s the same in his district.

“I don’t think I’ve talked to a single person in person — and I’m out all the time — who has criticized my position,” he said. “I do have a number of folks I’ve talked to say ‘Boy, don’t impeach, because you’re going to hurt the next election,’ but I have to say overwhelmingly it’s been positive.”