A new national poll has Hillary Clinton beating GOP nominee Donald Trump by six percentage points, signaling that Clinton may have gotten a bounce from the Democratic convention.
The poll by Reuters/Ipsos was conducted over the four days of the convention, from Monday through Thursday, as well as on Friday. Since it was not done entirely after the convention, it doesn’t prove conclusively that Clinton got a bounce from the proceedings.
Reuters said that nearly 41 percent of likely voters favored Clinton, compared to 35 percent for Trump. Another 25 percent picked “other.” The poll of 1,043 likely voters was conducted online and has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Trump experienced his own bounce after the GOP convention wrapped up in Cleveland about a week ago. Other polling shows the race still extremely close. The RealClearPolitics polling average shows Clinton and Trump tied at 44 percent.
