Donald Trump Edges Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Tracking Poll
Donald Trump is slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton for the first time in months, according to the latest ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll. Trump is leading with 46 of likely voters, while Clinton has 45. The two candidates are divided by a slim .7 percentage point margin, which is well within the poll's margin of error. Trump led Clinton in just one other ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll, conducted in May shortly after he clinched the Republican nomination. At the time, Clinton and former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders were still locked in a primary battle. The pollconducted between Oct. 27 and Oct. 30surveyed 1,128 likely voters and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The RealClear Politics polling average for Oct. 22 to Oct. 31 shows Clinton ahead by a margin of 2.4 percentage points with 47.7 support.