After a slew of bad polls, Hillary Clinton is back to a 5-point lead over Donald Trump in a new national poll.
Clinton has 50 percent support among likely voters in a new NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll released Tuesday, and Trump has 45 percent. In the same poll last week, Clinton had a 48 percent to 44 percent lead.
The Clinton’s campaigns failure to disclose her pneumonia diagnosis coupled with doubts over her emails while secretary of state had caused her to lose momentum in several national polls.
When third-party candidates are added into the race, Clinton maintains a 5-point lead. Clinton has 45 percent and Trump has 40 percent in that scenario, followed by Libertarian Gary Johnson at 10 percent and Green Party’s Jill Stein at 4 percent.
Among all registered voters, Clinton’s lead over the Republican nominee grows to 6 points: 49 percent to 43 percent.
Both major party candidates suffer from poor favorability. Forty-five percent of likely voters have a strongly unfavorable opinion of the Democratic nominee, and 50 percent say the same for Trump. And though just 43 percent have a favorable opinion of Clinton, only 38 say the same for Trump.
The online poll was conducted Sept. 12-18 among 14,326 adults who said they are registered to vote, including 13,320 likely voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points.
