Poll: Clinton takes 12-point lead over Trump

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Donald Trump faces a 12-point gap with Hillary Clinton in the latest Monmouth University poll of likely voters nationwide, after sexual assault allegations and audio of him making lewd comments about women battered his image.

Clinton leads her Republican opponent 50 to 38 percent in the final three weeks before Election Day, with 5 percent of voters backing Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and 2 percent backing the Green Party’s Jill Stein. Clinton carried a narrow 4-point lead over Trump at the end of September.

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