American public loses enthusiasm for impeachment despite blockbuster hearings

Democrats hoped it would be the week that Donald Trump was hoist with his own petard. A parade of witnesses, including former aides to the president, strode into Congress to deliver seemingly damning testimony to the impeachment inquiry. But the blockbuster hearings, which reached a huge television audience, appeared instead to have swung public support back towards Mr Trump. A national poll by Emerson College, taken during the hearings, between Nov 17 and Nov 20, found 45 per cent now oppo