Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump 43-40 percent in a Morning Consult national poll conducted entirely after the Democratic Convention concluded Thursday night, a 7-point swing from a Consult poll done just before the convention.
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Clinton also overtook Trump in the RealClearPolitics national polling average, with 45% support compared with Trump’s 43%. Trump had held a 44 to 40 per cent lead in the survey.
According to a recent nationwide poll, Clinton had a massive 15-point lead over her competitor.
Bill Clinton got a 13-point bounce in 1992, and went on to win with a plurality with billionaire Ross Perot in the race.
Clinton gained with Democrats who had been undecided before the convention, but she didn’t seem to woo voters who had previously supported Trump, according to CBS. Nine in 10 Clinton and Trump voters say their minds are made up about their candidate. Clinton, the first woman to earn the nomination of a major party, still led by a large margin, while Trump led among men, especially white men without a college degree. Unfavorable views dropped six points, from 56 percent to 50 percent. Although Trump received a slight bounce in his favorable rating after the Republican Convention, now just 31 percent view him favorably – similar to what was recorded before his party’s convention.
Earlier this month, two-thirds (67 percent) of those who backed Bernie Sanders during the primaries said they would vote for Clinton in November. Supporters of Sanders protested Clinton throughout the week.
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The CBS poll surveyed 1,131 registered voters by telephone nationally from July 29-31, with a margin of error of plus or minus three points. That is compared to a one percentage point lead for Trump in the same poll on July 25, following the Republican convention.
