Donald Trump up 5 points nationwide on Hillary Clinton — CNN poll

GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in three new national polls.

The poll also shows Trump has a small lead over presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Libertarian party nominee Gary Johnson received nine percent support in that poll, while Green party nominee Jill Stein got four percent.

“There hasn’t been a significant post-convention bounce in CNN’s polling since 2000”, CNN’s pollsters noted.

The poll also showed a favorability bounce for Trump, who was joined by members of his family onstage at the RNC to highlight his candidacy. Before the Republican National Convention, independents supported Clinton 34% to Trump’s 31%, with Johnson getting 22% to Stein’s 10%. The data on white evangelicals has a margin of error of plus or minus 6.5 percent. However, 53 percent of voters still view the businessman negatively.

The result marks the first time since at least September 2006 that Clinton’s favorability in a CNN poll dropped below the 40-percent threshold. Finally, Trump’s “America First” acceptance address was widely panned by the national media.

Just 26 percent of self-identified white evangelicals hold an unfavorable view of Trump, while 72 percent of white evangelicals hold a favorable view of him.

Independents appear to be the group that is shifting the most in Trump’s favor. Trump also cut into Clinton’s edge on managing foreign policy (50% said they trusted her more, down from 57% pre-convention).

In RealClearPolitics.Com, which keeps track of all major polls, in an average of recent major national polls, Clinton leads Trump by 1.9 per cent.

The polls that matter can be found in critical swing states like Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Trump has been polling near – but usually below – Clinton nationally since previous year.