Good Friday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from Amazon. And I'm Jake Sherman. House Democratic leadership has been fond of saying they are not at all focused on the political impact of impeachment and they bristle at the suggestion it should be a concern. Well, it is because on Capitol Hill everything, even matters of conscious and duty,

are conducted in a political world. While Democrats are pursuing impeachment, Republicans are spending

millions of dollars and getting prepared to spend millions more in districts where they believe

impeachment is incredibly unpopular. Republicans' theory, generally speaking, is that national polling for

impeachment matters very little when it comes to control of the House. They look at the polling in the district's Donald Trump

1 that are currently held by Democrats. The American Ashton Network, one of the main House GOP

outside groups, is one of the entities that is spending piles of cash to drive that point home.

A few weeks ago, we told you that AAN was spending $7 million

on television in an effort to brand the impeachment as politically motivated and hampering

Congress's work in other critical areas. The group checked up on its investment on Sunday and

Monday with polling, and those ads are having a pretty significant impact. The group polled in the swing

districts of representatives Susie Lee, a Democrat from Nevada, Anthony Brindisi, a Democrat from New York,

and the very heavily Trump district, represented by Representative Kendra Horn, a Democrat from Oklahoma.

They uncovered some interesting things.

The top line impeachment appears to be at this moment, according to this poll, a liability.

Brindisi and Lee's districts, 53% of voters are less likely to vote for them if they support impeachment.

Voters are 48% less likely to vote for Horn, whose district is quite conservative.

More than 60 percent of

the voters in each of the three districts, they believe voters should decide whether to remove Trump

next year through an election instead of impeaching him. Impeachment is truly breaking through. The polling

shows that people are hearing a lot about impeachment and their member of Congress. Sixty four percent

of Lee's constituents have seen, read or heard about it, and 78 percent of Brindisi's and 79 percent of Congress. Sixty four percent of lease constituents have seen, read or heard about it,

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