Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken a lead albeit a small one and within margin of error over her Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a new national poll, the first after last week’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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The new findings mark Mr Trump’s best showing in a CNN/ORC Poll against Ms Clinton since September 2015.
Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook downplayed the CNN/ORC Poll Friday, which gives Trump an edge coming out of the Republican convention.
Still, the CNN poll shows Clinton’s lead evaporating.
Post conventions, presidential candidates do get a major jump in their popularity ratings. A separate Morning Consult poll released Monday showed the GOP nominee edging Clinton by 4 percentage points. In a three-way race, Trump received 40 percent, 1 point above Clinton, with 12 percent for Johnson.
There hasn’t been a significant post-convention bounce in CNN’s polling since 2000.
Trump increased his overall favorability from 39 percent to 46 percent.
Clinton’s ratings on these same measures took a hit, though in most cases her drop-off was not quite as large as Trump’s gain. They have the opportunity to draw away more votes from Hillary than from Trump, with the levels of disgust over DNC corruption. Still, 40% called the speech excellent or good and about half of voters (45%) said Trump’s speech reflected the way they feel about things in the USA today; 48% said it did not reflect their views.
Cleveland also helped Trump make strides in his personal image, the poll said. For Clinton, it’s 44 percent. Results contain a margin of error plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, more than two in three voters say they don’t think Clinton is honest and trustworthy, a new high in CNN/ORC polling.
For Clinton, 52 percent says she’s prepared for the presidency, 29 percent say she is honest, 50 percent say she has the right temperament and personality to be president and 52 percent see her as a strong leader.
Trump’s overall favorability rating is 34 percent, though 66 percent of Republican voters view him favorably.
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Trump also led Clinton by a fifth of a point in the RealClearPolitics average, only the second time this election cycle in which he had overtaken Clinton in the website’s collection of polls.
