Donald Trump cut into Hillary Clinton’s lead in a new NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll conducted after the second presidential debate.
The post-debate poll unveiled on Tuesday showed Clinton ahead of Trump by 9 percentage points, 46-37, among likely voters in a four-way race. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson earned 8 percentage points in the poll and the Green Party’s Jill Stein picked up 2 points.
Clinton led Trump by 11 percentage points, 46-35, in a four-way race among likely voters in an NBC/WSJ poll conducted before the debate released on Monday. Clinton’s double-digit advantage benefited from the release of a video showing Trump talking about using his celebrity status to sexually take advantage of women. He has since dismissed his words as “locker room” banter, and not representative of his actual conduct.
Trump’s slight rebound in the polls may suggest further tightening is possible before next month’s election, but his favorability numbers appear unlikely to improve. Fewer people viewed Trump favorably after the debate than did before it, according to the polling, but his negative rating — 63 percent — remained unchanged.
The new NBC/WSJ polling surveyed 806 likely voters from Oct. 8-10, including 400 registered voters on Oct. 10 — after the debate. The poll was conducted by cell phone and landline telephone and had a 3.45-percentage-point margin of error among the likely voter sample and a 3.27 percentage point margin of error among the registered voter sample.
