--- title: Hillary Clinton Receives Post-Convention Boost in Polls description: Clinton has regained the slight lead she had over Trump ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland canonical: https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-01T12:09:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:19.223Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Receives Post-Convention Boost in Polls og:description: Clinton has regained the slight lead she had over Trump ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland og:url: https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8947ff4e33ca772f/6988a08acd1bba0555701c51/gettyimages-584897822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton And Tim Kaine Take Campaign Bus Tour Through Pennsylvania And Ohio og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Receives Post-Convention Boost in Polls twitter:description: Clinton has regained the slight lead she had over Trump ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8947ff4e33ca772f/6988a08acd1bba0555701c51/gettyimages-584897822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Back Ahead of Donald Trump in Post-Convention Polls > Sponsored content. 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Brief is free at time.com/newsletters. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Aug 1, 2016 12:09 PM UTC  Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) greet supporters during a campaign rally at Fort Hayes Vocational School in Columbus, Ohio on July 31, 2016. Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) greet supporters during a campaign rally at Fort Hayes Vocational School in Columbus, Ohio on July 31, 2016.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Aug 1, 2016 12:09 PM UTC Hillary Clinton has received a bump in the polls after being nominated for president at the Democratic Party’s convention last week. A poll released by _CBS News_ on Monday found [46 percent of voters said they would vote for Clinton in November](http://www.cbsnews.com/news/campaign-2016-did-hillary-clinton-get-a-post-convention-bump/), a seven-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump (39%) Clinton’s bump comes after Trump gained a slight edge over his Democratic opponent after his own party’s convention in Cleveland. Last week, a [RealClearPolitics average](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general%5Felection%5Ftrump%5Fvs%5Fclinton-5491.html) of polls showed Trump ahead by 0.2 percentage points. On Monday, Clinton held a 2.2 percentage point lead over Trump in the RealClearPolitics average. A New York _Times_ average of national polls has Clinton ahead [43-41 in a match-up against Trump. ](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/polls.html?%5Fr=0) [Public Policy Polling](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP%5FRelease%5FNational%5F7302016.pdf) also shows Clinton’s net-favorability rating had received a 9-point boost in July, though more voters have a negative view of her than a positive one. On the whole, the readout of the political contest after the two party’s conventions shows that Clinton has maintained the solid lead she’d held over Trump ahead of the Republican convention. According to [PPP](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP%5FRelease%5FNational%5F7302016.pdf), last month Clinton had a 45-41 lead over Trump in a 4-way contest (with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein) and a 48-44 lead when the race was narrowed down to two contenders. The latest poll shows Clinton ahead by 46 percent to Trump’s 41 percent in a 4-way contest and ahead 50-44 in a head-to-head match-up against Trump. “It looks like the Republican and Democratic convention bounces have cancelled each other out and basically left the race where it was a month ago,” said Dean Debnam, President of [Public Policy Polling in a release](http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP%5FRelease%5FNational%5F7302016.pdf). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Back Ahead of Donald Trump in Post-Convention Polls","datePublished":"2016-08-01T12:09:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:19.223Z","description":"Clinton has regained the slight lead she had over Trump ahead of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland","url":"https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Polls","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8947ff4e33ca772f/6988a08acd1bba0555701c51/gettyimages-584897822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8947ff4e33ca772f/6988a08acd1bba0555701c51/gettyimages-584897822.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton And Tim Kaine Take Campaign Bus Tour Through Pennsylvania And Ohio","caption":"Democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) greet supporters during a campaign rally at Fort Hayes Vocational School in Columbus, Ohio on July 31, 2016.","creditText":"Justin Sullivan—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":"https://time.com/4432773/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-polls-cbs/","name":"Hillary Clinton Back Ahead of Donald Trump in Post-Convention Polls"}}]}] ```