Women are turning their backs on Donald Trump in large numbers according to a new national poll released amid a troubling time for the candidate as he contends with a recent flurry of suggestive video leaks and sexual harassment accusations.
Trump trails Hillary Clinton by 20 percent (55 percent to 35 percent) among women, according to the results of the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll published Sunday. He leads with men by 3 percent.
The national poll also shows Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump among all voters.
Clinton beats the GOP nominee 48 percent to 37 percent in a four-way race. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson got 7 percent, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein received 2 percent.
The numbers don’t get much better for Trump in a two-person race, which shows him trailing Clinton 51 percent to 41 percent.
The poll was conducted by Hart Research Associates and Public Opinion Strategies.
“Donald Trump’s chances of winning this election have faded,” said Democratic pollster Fred Yang of Hart Research Associates. “This poll is showing the writing on the wall.”
The poll was conducted Oct. 10-13, days following a damaging hot mic leak from 2005 in which Trump can be heard saying lewd comments about women, as well as the second presidential debate in which Trump’s performance was widely seen as an improvement over the first.
Ninety-five percent of those surveyed said that they were aware of the 2005 video leak.
The NBC/WSJ poll follows another ABC/Washington Post survey released early Sunday that shows Trump trailing Clinton by only 4 percent.
The poll of 1,000 registered voters was conducted via both cell phones and landline phones. It has an overall margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points; and among the poll’s 905 likely voters, the margin of error is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points.
