hillary clinton continues to lead donald trump in nationwide polls of likely voters. | ap photo by nolan d. mccaskill 10/24/16 04:42 pm edt updated 10/24/16 04:42 pm edt hillary clinton leads donald trump by 5 points nationally, according to a cnn/orc poll released monday. clinton is nearly at the 50 percent mark two weeks out from election day as she leads trump among likely voters 49 percent to 44 percent. libertarian nominee gary johnson has 3 percent support, followed by green party candidate jill stein at 2 percent. story continued below a share of johnson<u+2019>s support appears to have gone equally to clinton and trump, who are both up 2 percent from where they stood at the beginning of this month, while johnson<u+2019>s standing has dropped from 7 percent to 3 percent. and while 86 percent have made up their mind, 14 percent of respondents said they could end up backing a different candidate. 2016 by gabriel debenedetti a trend among clinton and trump<u+2019>s supporters is that their support is more than just a protest vote. two in three clinton supporters said their vote for clinton is support for her, while one-third said it<u+2019>s in opposition to trump. similarly, trump is also experiencing that trend among his backers, 60 percent of whom said they<u+2019>re voting for him in support of him, though nearly 40 percent said their vote is in opposition of clinton. in a head-to-head matchup, clinton eclipses the 50 percent mark and leads trump by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent. both candidates<u+2019> favorability is still in the negative, though, with clinton at -6 percent and trump at -16 percent. the survey of 779 likely voters was conducted oct. 20-23 via landlines and cellphones. it has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points. by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
poll: clinton leads trump by 5 nationally - politico
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