--- title: Donald Trump Wiretapping: Poll Shows Republicans Believe Him description: Despite any lack of evidence, Republicans in a new CBS poll were not convinced the President wasn't wiretapped. canonical: https://time.com/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/ author: Alana Abramson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-03-29T15:45:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T04:05:27.231Z article:section: Politics og:title: 75% of Republicans Think Trump Was Wiretapped og:description: The poll was taken after FBI Director James Comey said there's no evidence. og:url: https://time.com/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c73fd9d61c5e93/6988c028bc6cfc76f53e0a8e/trump-foreign-aid-humanitarian-crisis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: President Donald Trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 75% of Republicans Think Trump Was Wiretapped twitter:description: The poll was taken after FBI Director James Comey said there's no evidence. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c73fd9d61c5e93/6988c028bc6cfc76f53e0a8e/trump-foreign-aid-humanitarian-crisis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Nearly Three-Fourths of Republicans Think President Trump Was Wiretapped, Poll Says > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, March. 27, 2017. Jabin Botsford—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Alana Abramson](https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/)  ## Alana Abramson Mar 29, 2017 3:45 PM UTC Nearly three-fourths of [Republicans](http://time.com/4716033/house-internet-browsing-history-fcc-comcast-verizon/) think it is likely[ President Trump](http://time.com/4716250/donald-trump-washington-nationals-mlb-opening-day/) was [wiretapped](http://time.com/4713187/donald-trump-obama-wiretap-fact-check/) during the [2016 election,](http://time.com/4706424/donald-trump-twitter-russia-election-democrats/) according to a [CBS News poll,](https://www.scribd.com/document/343392363/Cbs-Poll-7am-Toplines) despite the fact that top intelligence officials and Republican leaders have said there is no evidence for it. According to the poll, 35% of Republicans polled said it was “very likely” Trump’s offices were wiretapped, and 39% say it was “somewhat likely.” By comparison, just 6% of Democrats polled said it was very unlikely, and 15% said it was somewhat likely. The poll was conducted March 25 through March 28, several days after [FBI Director James Comey](http://time.com/4707021/comey-hearing-gravamen-watergate/) said during congressional testimony that neither the FBI nor the Department of Justice have any evidence to support Trump’s claims. Overall approval for Trump was also split along partisan lines. 84% of Republicans polled approve of the way he is handling the job, while 81% of Democrats disapprove. And Trump largely evaded blame for the failure of the American Health Care Act among Republicans. Only 4% of GOP voters polled said Trump didn’t compromise enough, while 16% said Congressional Republicans didn’t compromise enough and 30% said Congressional Democrats didn’t compromise enough. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/"},"headline":"Nearly Three-Fourths of Republicans Think President Trump Was Wiretapped, Poll Says","datePublished":"2017-03-29T15:45:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:05:27.231Z","description":"Despite any lack of evidence, Republicans in a new CBS poll were not convinced the President wasn't wiretapped.","url":"https://time.com/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/","keywords":["Donald Trump","Health Care","republicans","Congress","White House","Polls","onetime","american health care act"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c73fd9d61c5e93/6988c028bc6cfc76f53e0a8e/trump-foreign-aid-humanitarian-crisis.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Alana Abramson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/alana-abramson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8c73fd9d61c5e93/6988c028bc6cfc76f53e0a8e/trump-foreign-aid-humanitarian-crisis.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 listens during a meeting with women small business owners in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, March. 27, 2017.","creditText":"Jabin Botsford—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/4716500/trump-poll-wiretapping-congress-health-care/","name":"Nearly Three-Fourths of Republicans Think President Trump Was Wiretapped, Poll Says"}}]}] ```