Another post-debate national tracking poll has found Hillary Clinton holding a comfortable lead over Donald Trump in the final weeks before Election Day, with NBC News-Survey Monkey finding 46 percent of likely voters supporting the Democratic nominee compared to 40 percent for her Republican opponent.
Libertarian Gary Johnson’s support declined slightly from last week to 9 percent, while Green Party candidate Jill Stein maintained 3 percent.
Clinton’s lead holds steady in a two-way race, where she receives 50 percent support to Trump’s 44 percent.
These margins show little change from last week’s pre-debate survey, where Clinton lead Trump by 5 points in a four-way race and 7 points in a two-way.
Other national polls have shown Clinton holding or expanding her lead in the wake of a debate that most pundits from both sides of the aisle say she won and a week of negative news for Trump. TPM’s PollTracker Average has the former secretary of state with 48.3 percent of the vote compared to 42.2 percent for Trump.
The NBC-Survey Monkey poll was conducted Sept. 26-Oct. 2 among 26,925 likely voters. The margin of error was plus or minus 1 percentage points.
