Hillary Clinton is leading Donald Trump by double digits among likely voters, according to the latest ABC News poll released Sunday.
Clinton is 12 percentage points ahead of Trump, at 50 to 38 percent respectively, an eight point gain from her four point lead in an October 13 ABC/Washington Post poll.
The Democratic nominee’s surge in the polls comes as Trump faces a series of sexual assault allegations as well as criticism over his declaration that the election is “rigged” and that he might not accept its results.
High numbers of likely voters disapprove of how Trump is “handling questions about his treatment of women,” as well as his refusal “to say whether he would accept the election’s outcome if Clinton wins,” at 69 and 65 percent disapproval respectively.
As for Trump’s claim that the election is being rigged due to “large scale voter fraud,” 59 percent of likely voters thought that the Republican nominee is “trying to make excuses in case he loses.”
Among women, Clinton leads Trump by 20 percentage points. She is also beating Trump by three percentage points among men, at 44 to 41, an unprecedented occurrence for the ABC News poll.
The poll’s results fall in line with Bill Kristol’s analysis of what the last few scandal-filled weeks mean for Donald Trump, and what the Republican party should do in the aftermath:
