Multiple polls conducted after the Friday release of the Donald Trump Access Hollywood video show Hillary Clinton extending her advantage in the presidential race, with one survey of a four-way field giving her an 11-point lead.
An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted Saturday and Sunday had Clinton with 46 percent of registered voters—a typical number for her of late—and Trump with just 35 percent, a shockingly low result he hadn’t received in any recognized survey since August. Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson recorded nine percent, which is on the upper end of vote shares for him in the last few weeks.
It’s even worse for Trump in a two-way race, which the poll has Clinton leading 52 to 38 percent.
NBC News/Wall Street Journal had Clinton leading by six and seven percentage points, respectively, in its September data.
Past polling from Rasmussen has been far more favorable to Trump, with the candidate leading by as much as five points in September. Clinton’s advantage was a point on Friday. On Monday, it had stretched to seven, 45 to 38 percent. The pollster observed that Trump had been “clobbered” since Friday—the survey of likely voters, which is conducted on a three-day rolling basis, included results from Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday.
Other polls have showed movement in the direction of Clinton, as well. In UPI’s daily tracking pollof likely voters, Clinton’s numbers have increased three points and Trump’s have decreased five in the last seven days. And an Economist/YouGov survey of the general public done on Friday and Saturday showed Clinton with a six-point lead in a four-way race, her largest in that poll since August.
Rather than picking apart the reliability of each individual result, the group of surveys reflects a noticeable shift in Clinton’s favor in recent days. The Democrat had already built a moderate but steady lead in national polling since mid-September, but the latest RealClearPolitics average, which accounts for the new data, has Clinton ahead 5.1 points in a four-way race and 5.8 in a head-to-head matchup.
In the four-way contest, Trump averages 39.7 percent support.
