For the first time, Trump beats Clinton in national polling average

Trump leads Clinton in latest national poll.
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For the first time, Donald Trump has passed Hillary Clinton by a sliver of a margin in the weekly average of national polls, with an upper-hand of 43.4 percent to 43.2 percent, according to RealClearPolitics.

Trump pulled ahead of Clinton in last week's ABC News/Washington Post survey as well as a Fox News poll, although Clinton maintained her lead on Trump in NBC News/Wall Street Journal and CBS News/New York Times polls.

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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.