Hillary Clinton has regained a lead over Donald Trump in their November match-up, three new polls out Sunday show, but the race remains a virtual dead heat as Republicans head to Cleveland for the quadrennial nominating convention.
Clinton beat Trump in a one-on-one matchup 46%-41% in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Sunday that had a 3.1-percentage-point margin-of-error. Another 8% said they preferred neither candidate.
In a four-way race that included third-party candidates Jill Stein and Gary Johnson, Clinton beat Trump 41%-35%.
An ABC News/ Washington Pol poll out Sunday revealed similar results, with Clinton defeating Trump 47%-43%, with a margin-of-error of 3.5 percentage points. Another 6% said they supported neither.
Meanwhile, a third poll by CNN/ORC International out Sunday showed Clinton leading Trump 49%-42%, with 4% saying they would support neither.
Sunday’s release of the trio of polls, however, show a slight uptick since a CBS News/ New York Times poll out last Thursday showed the race between Trump and Clinton in a 40%-40% tie.
All three, nevertheless, indicate an increasingly tight race in the aftermath of a rough couple of weeks for Clinton.
In the past two weeks, Clinton was harshly criticized by FBI Director James Comey over her use of a private email server for official business during her tenure as secretary of state.
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