Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump in post-debate CNN/ORC poll

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last updated 4 October 2016

A new CNN/ORC poll released Monday shows Hillary Clinton with a 5-point lead over Donald Trump in a four-way contest.

The survey of likely voters was conducted after the first presidential debate last week, and Clinton is ahead of Trump 47 percent to 42 percent, followed by Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson at 7 percent and the Green Party's Jill Stein at 2 percent. Clinton has made gains among men, going from a 22 point deficit in early September to just 5 points, and independent voters — in early September, they favored Trump, but now it's Clinton, 44 percent to 37 percent.

Most of the interviews were completed before The New York Times reported about Trump's 1995 tax returns over the weekend, and nearly 75 percent of survey participants, including 47 percent of Trump's supporters, said they believe he should release his tax returns. The poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 28 through Oct. 2 among a random national sample of 1,501 adults. Results among the 1,213 likely voters have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.