Trump surges to an 8-point advantage on honesty after FBI renews Clinton email investigation

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Voters perceive Donald Trump as more honest and trustworthy than Hillary Clinton by a large margin, a new Washington Post/ABC News Tracking Poll has found. While the candidates were tied on honesty in the last Post/ABC poll in September, Trump now has an eight-point advantage of 46 to 38 on Clinton.

The Post/ABC poll was taken Oct. 28-31, after the FBI's announcement that it would be investigating newly discovered emails tied to Clinton's private email server, but the percentage of voters who disapprove of Clinton's handling of questions about the server (59 percent) is virtually unchanged from the week before the FBI renewed its probe (60 percent).

The Post/ABC poll puts Trump and Clinton at a tie of 46 percent each nationally. It reached 1,773 adults on landlines and cell phones and has a margin of error of 2.5 percent. RealClearPolitics puts the national average at 45 percent Clinton, 43 percent Trump.

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Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.