Clinton lead over Trump hits 5 percent in new poll

August 05, 2016 02:37

With a full week of data integrated since President Barack Obama's address to the Democratic National Convention, the UPI/CVoter daily presidential tracking poll shows Hillary Clinton cementing a 5 percentage point lead over Donald Trump in the race for the White House.

Clinton leads Trump 49.6 percent to 43.8 percent in data released Thursday.

While Clinton entered the DNC trailing Trump, in the six days since it ended, her percentage of support has risen to a near constant 49 percent, while Trump's share has dropped steadily.

Trump has dropped 4.7 percentage points in the past week, which included convention speeches by Obama and Clinton, and the viral moment of Clinton's four-day gathering, when Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim soldier killed fighting in Iraq, delivered an angry denunciation of Trump's proposal to ban Muslim immigration.

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