Hillary Clinton enters the final two weeks of the presidential election with a 5-point lead over Donald Trump, according to the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey nationwide tracking poll.
The poll finds the Republican presidential nominee trailing Clinton 46 to 41 percent, marking virtually no change from last week’s poll taken before the final presidential debate in Las Vegas. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson draws 7 percent support and the Green Party’s Jill Stein draws 3 percent.
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In a two-way race between both major party candidates, Clinton expands her lead to 6 percentage points – 50 to 44 percent.
Trump’s recent criticism of House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders led 57 percent of self-identified Republicans and Republican-leaning voters to describe their party as divided. Those same respondents were wary that GOP would unite ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
Overall, 74 percent of voters said the GOP is a fractured party versus 54 percent of voters who said the Democratic Party has come together and united before Election Day. Sixty-three percent of Republicans said their party must unite behind Trump before the election or he stands no chance against Clinton, while slightly more than a third of GOP voters said he can win without the party’s full support.
The survey of 32,225 likely voters nationwide was conducted online between Oct. 17-23. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus a single percentage point.
