--- title: Most Americans Believe Donald Trump Misconduct Allegations description: More than six in ten Americans believe the various allegations of sexual misconduct raised against President Donald Trump. canonical: https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/ author: Nash Jenkins article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-22T13:58:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T18:40:02.551Z article:section: Politics og:title: Most People Believe the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump Are True og:description: But people's opinions are largely split along party lines og:url: https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be3b23188b797bf/6988f65622fb85659ee2433a/gettyimages-896959218.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3696 og:image:height: 2079 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Most People Believe the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump Are True twitter:description: But people's opinions are largely split along party lines twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be3b23188b797bf/6988f65622fb85659ee2433a/gettyimages-896959218.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Most People Believe the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump Are True > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump talks on the South Lawn as he walks to board Marine One and head to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md, at the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017. The Washington Post/Getty Images by [Nash Jenkins](https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/) ## Nash Jenkins Dec 22, 2017 1:58 PM UTC More than six in ten Americans believe the various allegations of sexual misconduct raised against President Donald Trump, according to a [new CNN poll](http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2017/images/12/21/rel12d.-.sexual.harassment.pdf) released Friday morning. Of those surveyed, 61% said they believed reports that Trump has in the past made “unwanted sexual advances against women” were mostly true. Even more — 63% of respondents — said that the allegations warranted a congressional investigation. The White House has repeatedly [denied](http://time.com/5059236/white-house-donald-trump-sexual-assault-accusers/) sexual misconduct allegations against President Trump. Unsurprisingly, the results of the survey fell largely along partisan lines. Nearly 90% of Democrats surveyed said they believed the reports, compared to 18% of Republicans. Pollers also asked if Trump should resign the presidency in light of the accusations: 50% of all asked said yes, but only 10% of the respondents who said they leaned Republican answered in the affirmative, compared to 79% of those who said they leaned Democrat. The poll, conducted last week, also reflected shifting long-term ideological trends in the U.S. 64% of those who answered said they believed the country would be better governed if more women were elected to public office, up from 57% in 1999 and just 28% in 1984\. Only 8% of those interviewed in last week’s survey said that sexual harassment was “not very serious” as a national problem; in 1998, during the height of the scandal surrounding President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, more than one in five Americans said they weren’t concerned about it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/"},"headline":"Poll: Most People Believe the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump Are True","datePublished":"2017-12-22T13:58:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:40:02.551Z","description":"But people's opinions are largely split along party lines","url":"https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/","keywords":["Donald Trump","onetime","MeToo"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be3b23188b797bf/6988f65622fb85659ee2433a/gettyimages-896959218.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nash Jenkins","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/p-nash-jenkins/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6be3b23188b797bf/6988f65622fb85659ee2433a/gettyimages-896959218.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Donald Trump","caption":"President Donald Trump","creditText":"The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5077256/donald-trump-sexual-allegations-poll/","name":"Poll: Most People Believe the Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Trump Are True"}}]}] ```