New poll has Hillary Clinton up 10 percentage points
Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump nationally by 10 percentage points, according to an NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll released Tuesday.
The poll found Clinton leads Trump 51 percent to 41 percent, up from an eight-percentage-point lead last week.
In a four-way race involving Clinton, Trump as well as Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton would lead by 6 percentage points, with 44 percent to Trump's 38 percent. Ten percent would back Johnson and 4 percent would support Stein.
The poll found that while Trump has had an advantage with men, he now leads only by 5 percentage points, narrower than the 16-percentage-point margin from two weeks ago. Clinton, on the other hand, has expanded her lead with women, now beating Trump by 24 percentage points among that group, greater than the 14-percentage-point margin two weeks ago.
Support among white men for Trump has dropped since the Republican National Convention last month when he had a 31-percentage-point advantage. He is now only 23 percentage points ahead of Clinton among that group.
The survey also found that support among white evangelicals for Trump has dropped from a 60-percentage-point advantage in early June to only a 49-percentage-point advantage in the latest poll.
Other recent polls also show that Clinton has expanded her lead over Trump since the two parties held their conventions.
The survey polled 11,480 adults between August 1 and 7 with a 1.2 percentage point margin of error.
