Trump edges ahead of Clinton in new opinion poll

Results of the week’s tracking poll showed that, in a four-way race including two “third-party” candidates, Clinton is supported by 47 percent of likely supporters while Trump maintains 41 percent support.

Meanwhile, the poll found that 46 per cent of the voters support Clinton at the moment, compared to 45 per cent who support Trump.

The one-point Clinton-Trump race overall is within the survey’s margin of sampling error. The FBI declined to comment on that report on Monday.

Some Democrats have also charged Comey with having a “double standard” in discussing the Clinton probe publicly while not discussing other current or previous investigations that they say involve Republican nominee Donald Trump’s campaign.

This Virginia poll is somewhat of an outlier most recent polls show Clinton leading in the Old Dominion State.

It’s the first time since July that Clinton has fallen behind her rival, whose ratings have remained relatively flat in comparison. Comey has already described Clinton and her aides as “extremely careless” and has said agents found scores of classified emails on Clinton’s server. “He wants more countries to have nuclear weapons”.

Clinton now faces an uphill struggle to shore up confidence among her core supporters in time for the nation to go to the polls on November 8.

Hillary Clinton’s October momentum came “to a halt” in the QU swing state poll, according to a Wednesday afternoon release from the group, which said the Democrat had seen her leads slightly shrink in Florida and North Carolina.

Rep Weiner, the disgraced former NY congressman, is being investigated in connection with online communications with a teenage girl. He was separated this year from Huma Abedin, one of Clinton’s closest advisers. Clinton herself has called the move “strange”, unprecedented and “deeply troubling”. Trump kicked off his campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, that afternoon by saying, “I have great respect for the fact that the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice are now willing to have the courage to right the frightful mistake that they made”.

The White House defended Comey Monday, with press secretary Josh Earnest saying President Barack Obama does not believe that Comey was intentionally trying to sway the election.