--- title: Donald Trump Support Falls After Tape Leaked description: A leaked tape that revealed Donald Trump boasted about using his celebrity status to grope women dealt a blow to his standing among voters canonical: https://time.com/4525282/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-tape-leak/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-10T17:14:21.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-07T06:50:17.214Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Lead Widens After Donald Trump Tape Leak og:description: Clinton is now 11 points ahead of Trump, the poll found og:url: https://time.com/4525282/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-tape-leak/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d3e1deb20236358/6988a96abc6cfc0c393dedfb/hillary-clinton-lead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Candidates Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump Hold Second Presidential Debate At Washington University og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Lead Widens After Donald Trump Tape Leak twitter:description: Clinton is now 11 points ahead of Trump, the poll found twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8d3e1deb20236358/6988a96abc6cfc0c393dedfb/hillary-clinton-lead.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Lead Widens After Donald Trump Tape Leak > Sponsored content. 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NBC suspended Today Show host Billy Bush over his role in the 2005 Access Hollywood tape with Donald Trump._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 10, 2016 5:14 PM UTC NBC suspended Today Show host Billy Bush over his role in the 2005 Access Hollywood tape with Donald Trump. by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Oct 10, 2016 5:14 PM UTC A leaked tape that revealed Donald Trump had [boasted about using his celebrity status to grope women](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4%5Fstory.html) dealt a substantial blow to his standing among voters, a new poll shows. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is 11 points ahead of Trump, according to a new [NBC News_/Wall Street Journal_](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-after-trump-tape-revelation-clinton-s-lead-double-digits-n663691) poll. The former Secretary of State has 46% support from likely voters compared with Trump’s 35% in a four-way matchup. Libertarian Gary Johnson has 9% support, while the Green Party’s Jill Stein is holding at 2%. In a head-to-head contest, Clinton would receive 52% of likely voters’ support, while Trump would earn 38% of their votes. **Read more:** [_What to Know About Donald Trump’s Unaired_ ](http://time.com/4525585/donald-trump-apprentice-tapes)[Apprentice](http://time.com/4525585/donald-trump-apprentice-tapes)[ _Tapes_](http://time.com/4525585/donald-trump-apprentice-tapes) Clinton’s lead among registered voters also grew to 13%, its highest point since the early days of Clinton-vs.-Trump matchups last September, according to [NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-after-trump-tape-revelation-clinton-s-lead-double-digits-n663691). The tapes appear to have significantly impacted voters’ perceptions of Trump, who joked in vile terms about being able to grab women by their genitals due to his celebrity. “And when you’re a star, they let you do it,” Trump says. “You can do anything.” He later adds, “grab them by the p-ssy,” using a slang term for the vagina. According to the [NBC/_WSJ_](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-after-trump-tape-revelation-clinton-s-lead-double-digits-n663691) poll, 31% of voters said the remarks were “inappropriate” but typical banter some men engage in among other men. About 41%, however, called Trump’s statements “completely unacceptable.” The poll was conducted over the weekend, Oct. 8 and 9, and has a margin of error of 4.4%. ## Transcript [ BLANK_AUDIO ] [ NOISE ] Pending further review of the matter, NBC News has suspended Billy Bush, the host of Today's third hour, for his role in that conversation with Donald Trump. [ MUSIC ] I gotta use some tic- tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful- I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Whatever you want. Grab them by the ****. See those legs. All I can see are the legs. No it looks good. [ MUSIC ] I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize. Let's be honest, we're living in the real world. This is nothing more than a distraction from the important issues we're facing today. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victums . >> You brag that you sexually assaulted women, do you understand that? No I didn't say that at all. I don't think you understood what was said, this was locker room talk. You know when we have a world Where you have ISIS chopping off heads and frankly drowning people in steel cages, where you have wars and horrible, horrible sights all over. I will knock the hell out of ISIS. We're gonna defeat ISIS. ISIS happened a number of years ago in a vacuum that was left So... Because of bad judgment. Just for the record, though, are you saying that what you said on that bus 11 years ago, that you did not actually kiss women without consent, or grope women without consent? I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do. So, for the record, you're saying you never did that. I said things that frankly you hear these things, I said. And I was embarrassed by it. But I have tremendous respect for women. Have you ever done those things? And women have respect from me. Mr Trump, do you have any comment? Go Trump, go Trump! 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