--- title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll description: Hillary Clinton is ahead of her GOP rival Donald Trump in a national poll released on the eve of the Republican National Convention canonical: https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-17T13:49:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:49.525Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll og:description: Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7% og:url: https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll twitter:description: Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7% twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll > Sponsored content. 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The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jul 17, 2016 1:49 PM UTC Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is ahead of her GOP rival Donald Trump in a [new national poll](http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-finds-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-despite-email-report-1468760582/) released on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Clinton leads [Trump](http://time.com/4409330/donald-trump-mike-pence-vice-president-2/?xid=homepage) by 46% to 41%, according to the Wall Street _Journal_/NBC News poll, which was released on Sunday. That five-point margin remains the same from a _Journal_/NBC News survey taken last month before the FBI [criticized](http://time.com/4394178/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-investigation/) Clinton’s private email practices as “extremely careless” while she was secretary of state. The poll also found that Clinton has a huge [advantage among African-Americans](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-conventions/poll-clinton-keeps-5-point-lead-over-trump-heading-conventions-n610966/?df) with 84% supporting Clinton compared to 7% backing Trump. Clinton also had the support of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 by 55% to 32%, and women by 52% to 37%. Trump is ahead among whites by 50% to 37%, as well as among men by 46% to 39%, according to the survey. The poll interviewed 1,000 registered voters between July 9 and July 13\. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1%. \[[_WSJ_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-finds-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-despite-email-report-1468760582/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll","datePublished":"2016-07-17T13:49:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:49.525Z","description":"Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7%","url":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton speaks during the LULAC National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","name":"Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll"}}]}] ```