A majority of U.S. adults support impeaching President Donald Trump, a figure that “rivals” that of Richard Nixon amid the Watergate scandal, according to pollster G. Elliott Morris on the results of a new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.

The poll, conducted on a sample of 1,514 United States residents over age 18, was just days after Trump’s genocidal threat toward Iran earlier this month. It found that 55% of American adults backed a House impeachment vote while 37% opposed the move and 8% were unsure, Morris noted in a post on his Strength In Numbers site on Wednesday.

The pollster wrote that the net “verdict” (+18, or those who approve of a third Trump impeachment minus those who oppose it) “puts Trump in the neighborhood of the numbers Richard Nixon saw at the peak” of the scandal that led to his resignation in 1974.

“The 55% figure is unusual by modern impeachment-polling standards,” wrote Morris of the support for impeaching Trump.

Trump’s warning that he’ll wipe out the “entire civilization” of Iran sparked a wave of right-wing backlash against the president and calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

The president’s Truth Social threat is among a number of unhinged posts to his platform that have fueled questions over whether he’s fit to serve.

Over 85 members of the House have supported either impeaching Trump or invoking the 25th Amendment, Axios noted earlier this month.

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight_data poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment. Read and share: https://t.co/38cFool0d3

Morris, in the post on his site, wrote that the comparison between Trump and Nixon’s numbers isn’t exactly “apples to apples.”

The survey on Nixon, conducted by Gallup in August 1974 at the height of the Watergate scandal and days before he stepped down from the Oval Office, asked if his actions were “serious enough to warrant his being removed from the Presidency.”

The results: 58% of U.S. adults responded that they wanted Nixon removed from office.

The recent Trump poll, meanwhile, asked about the House voting to impeach the president, not about removing him from office.

The Trump figure, Morris claimed, nonetheless puts him in “‘Nixon resignation’ territory.”

The president’s net job approval ratings in his second term have him wading underwater in levels that haven’t been touched since Nixon’s follow-up stint in the White House, according to data gathered and analyzed by Strength In Numbers.

Read more of Morris’ report on the poll here.

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