President Obama’s approval numbers jumped by 3 points after he appeared alongside Hillary Clinton at the Democratic convention last week.
Obama’s approval rating climbed from 49 percent to 52 in the NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll made public Tuesday.
Clinton expanded the 1-point lead she notched in the same poll just after Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination to 8 points in the latest results, leading him 50 points to 42. Several new polls indicate that Clinton is enjoying significant gains in the wake of her convention, erasing the post-convention bump Trump secured after the GOP convened in Cleveland.
Overall, more people said they had a favorable impression of the Democratic Party after its convention in Philadelphia.
In a four-way race with Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton still leads Trump by 4 points. Johnson earned 9 percent of support and Stein 4 percent in the weekly poll.
