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

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.

Clinton has asserted that "polls this far out mean nothing," while Trump rides the momentum of increasing congressional support as the Republican Party rallies to unify behind him.

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