CAMPAIGN/POLLS/SPYGATE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Nearly 4 in 10 voters believe Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was spied on during the 2016 election, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they believe the Trump campaign was spied on, compared with 28 percent who said they don’t believe the president’s campaign was spied on. More than a third, 35 percent, said they don’t know or have no opinion about it. The spying allegations — revived last week by Attorney General William Barr, who told lawmakers he thought ‘spying did occur’ on the president’s 2016 campaign — are largely viewed through a partisan lens. More than half of Republicans surveyed, 57 percent, said they believe the Trump campaign was spied on, while less than a quarter of Democrats, 24 percent, agreed. While there’s no evidence that officials spied on the Trump campaign, the attorney general’s comments still made it into a majority of voters’ news consumption. More than a quarter, 26 percent, said they have seen, heard or read ‘a lot’ about Barr’s spying claim, and 32 percent said they have seen, heard or read ‘some.’ One-fifth of respondents said they hadn’t seen, heard or read much about the comments, and 21 percent were fully in the dark, saying they hadn’t seen, heard or read anything ‘at all’ about it.”
–Nolan D. McCaskill, “Poll: Nearly 4 in 10 voters believe Trump’s campaign was spied on,” Politico, April 17, 2019 5:41 am