Donald Trump Trails Hillary Clinton by Slim Margin

But Clinton’s lead doesn’t mean she has become more popular; rather, her edge over Trump is due to a drop in support for him, Fox News reported.

This shows that, between Johnson and Stein, they seem to take 9 percentage points from Clinton, and only 4 percentage points from Trump.

But this month, Trump found himself trailing Clinton by a 42% to 39% spread.

Donald Trump, pictured in Manhattan on Thursday, would lose to Hillary Clinton by three points if an election were held today.

The Fox News survey, published Friday, found that 60 percent of voters think Clinton isn’t telling the truth about her emails, compared to 27 percent that believe she is. Those numbers are consistent with earlier polls from this year. Thirteen percent say they don’t know. Each has their pockets of support: Clinton with blacks, women and voters under 30; Trump with whites, men and Independents.

According to the poll, 48 percent of Trump supporters said they were “holding their nose” to vote for him, while 51 percent said they were “happy to vote for him”. She will become the first woman in USA history to secure the presidential nomination of one of the country’s two major political parties. Bernie Sanders had secured his party’s nomination, he would lead Trump 49 percent to 38 percent.

A calculation by the Associated Press on Thursday found that Clinton has won 2,203 pledged delegates in primaries and caucuses, as compared to Sanders’ 1,828.

The results from this question among registered voters show Trump at 40 percent, Clinton at 39 percent, Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 4 percent; 8 percent did not answer the question.

Fox notes that the poll was conducted “Sunday through Wednesday – right as Clinton finally captured enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination”.

The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus four percentage points.