Donald Trump inches ahead of Hillary Clinton in new national poll

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's planes in Cleveland
(Image credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)

A CNN/ORC poll released Tuesday finds Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton essentially tied among likely voters, with Trump ahead 45 percent to 43 percent — within the poll's margin of error — Libertarian Gary Johnson at 7 percent, and Green Party candidate Jill Stein at 2 percent. Among all registered voters, Clinton leads, 45 percent to 41 percent, due more to a rise in Trump's numbers than a dip in Clinton's. A separate poll Tuesday from NBC News/SurveyMonkey found the race unchanged, with Clinton leading Trump by 6 points among registered voters and 4 points when Johnson and Stein are included.

Both candidates were in Ohio on Monday, and are headed to critical swing states in the South on Tuesday: Trump will be in Virginia and North Carolina while Clinton travels to Florida. The CNN/ORC poll includes 786 likely voters contacted Sept. 1-4, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points; the NBC/SurveyMonkey tracking poll was conducted online Aug. 29-Sept. 4 among 32,226 registered voters, and has an error margin of 1 point. For more information on the CNN/ORC poll, watch CNN's report below. Peter Weber

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
To continue reading this article...
Continue reading this article and get limited website access each month.
Get unlimited website access, exclusive newsletters plus much more.
Cancel or pause at any time.
Already a subscriber to The Week?
Not sure which email you used for your subscription? Contact us
Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.