Video taking off 5.8x its usual first day

David Pakman's "Trump's getting impeached" hinges on the midterms

The million-view commentary examines possible congressional investigations, while viewers focus on the difference between impeachment and removal.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,050,037 views a day, 5.8 times a normal first day on this channel (180,618).

YEP, Trump’s getting impeached

What would a Democratic win in November mean for congressional scrutiny of Donald Trump? That is the conditional question behind David Pakman's much more definite title, "YEP, Trump's getting impeached".

The segment examines congressional leaders' assessments of possible oversight investigations and impeachment votes should Democrats win the House and Senate. It is a discussion of what could follow an election result, not an announcement that an impeachment vote has happened.

The upload drew roughly a million views in its first day, nearly six times Pakman's usual opening audience for a regular video. Its comment section was even further above the channel's norm.

Much of that discussion turns on what impeachment would actually accomplish. Viewers repeatedly distinguish an impeachment vote from removal from office, asking about the latter rather than treating the former as an endpoint. The constitutional distinction matters: the House impeaches, while the Senate holds the trial and decides whether to convict.

The election question also runs through Pakman's surrounding uploads, from former Trump voters' congressional choices to an interview with Gina Hinojosa, identified in the description as the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas. That conversation broadens his midterm coverage to polling shifts and data centers.

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The facts

Channel: David Pakman
Subscribers: 3,670,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 15,740,435
Channel views, pace per day: 601,936 (on a normal day: 2,293,138)
Video published: October 11, 2026
Video views so far: 1,164,287 (2 days online)
Video views, pace per day: 769,046

The numbers

The impeachment commentary passed a million views with an unusually strong first day. Comments also arrived far faster than on a typical regular upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

180,618

this video

1,050,037

subscribers

3,670,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

3,880,223,229

views per day

601,936