--- title: Donald Trump Dips in Polls as Hillary Clinton Firms Lead description: Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by 11 points, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll canonical: https://time.com/4532625/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-polls/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-16T15:09:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:28.072Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Continues to Dip in Polls as Hillary Clinton Firms Her Lead og:description: Polls show that fervor for Trump has tanked og:url: https://time.com/4532625/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-polls/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1def3bab2f692ea0/6988aa22428a9e285bcd4a2c/trump-tanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Continues to Dip in Polls as Hillary Clinton Firms Her Lead twitter:description: Polls show that fervor for Trump has tanked twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1def3bab2f692ea0/6988aa22428a9e285bcd4a2c/trump-tanks.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Continues to Dip in Polls as Hillary Clinton Firms Her Lead > Sponsored content. 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Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Oct. 14, 2016. Mike Segar—Reuters by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 16, 2016 3:09 PM UTC Hillary Clinton is ahead of Donald Trump by 11 points, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, which comes a little more than three weeks before the presidential election. Conducted after the second presidential debate, the [NBC News/WSJ poll](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/clinton-holds-11-point-national-lead-over-trump-nbc-wsj-n666986) finds Clinton leading Trump among likely voters 48% to 37%. Trump’s support in the latest [ABC News/Washington Post](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/enthusiasm-donald-trump-fades-partisanship-close-poll/story?id=42815332) poll remained roughly the same since controversy exploded over Trump’s treatment of women. The two candidates remain close in that poll, with Clinton polling at 47% to Trump’s 43% because of partisan preferences. Both polls show that fervor for Trump has tanked in the [aftermath of a video](http://time.com/4524406/presidential-debate-donald-trump-locker-room-talk-video/) of the Republican nominee making crude comments to describe women and as multiple women have [accused him of sexual assault](http://time.com/4530339/donald-trump-sexual-assault-media-hillary-clinton/). Two-thirds of registered voters reject Trump’s denial of making unwanted sexual advances toward women, the ABC News/Washington Post poll said. The margin of error for the NBC News/WSJ poll is plus or minus 3.3 percentage points. 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