Article snippet: House GOP leaders are telling their rank-and-file members that impeachment will backfire on Democrats and give the GOP a chance to flip dozens of Democratic-held seats next year. Members were briefed Monday during a call led by House Minority Leader MORE (R-Calif.) on a new poll taken by the House GOP’s campaign arm that showed 68 percent of voters see impeachment as being politically motivated. “The numbers look good for us,” one source on the call said. “[They] show independents and voters in districts Trump won with a Dem rep are against impeachment.” According to the poll taken by Public Opinion Strategies for the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), 67 percent of independents see impeachment as politically motivated. A memo obtained by The Hill that included information on the poll, which surveyed voters in 95 battleground districts, said that an anti-impeachment GOP candidate “who wants voters to decide the fate of the president in the next election” gets 50 percent support, compared to 42 percent for a pro-impeachment Democrat. It also found that the anti-impeachment GOP candidate led the pro-impeachment Democrat in districts held by Republicans and Democrats. In Republican-held districts, the advantage was 53 percent to 40 percent, according to the poll, while the advantage was 47 percent to 43 percent in Democratic districts. In districts won by MORE but now held by Democrats, the advantage for Republicans, according to the memo, was 54 pe... Link to the full article to read more