Question: Which of the following BEST explains why President Trump's 2019 impeachment was an appeal to public opinion? Need Assignment Help? Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi believed impeachment would help her party gain seats in the House of Representatives. Opinion polls indicated that the vast majority of the public supported it. The Democrats were split on impeachment. The Democrats went ahead with the impeachment to shed light on perceived corruption even though they knew the Senate would never vote to convict.