--- title: Donald Trump 1 Point Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Poll description: Donald Trump is slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton for the first time in months, according to the ABC News/Washington Post tracking poll canonical: https://time.com/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-11-01T11:53:25.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:23.537Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Leads Hillary Clinton For First Time Since May: Poll og:description: The Republican nominee leads by just 1 percentage point og:url: https://time.com/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eff79ef605f59ef/6988ac67bc6cfc13c93df274/trump-leads-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Leads Hillary Clinton For First Time Since May: Poll twitter:description: The Republican nominee leads by just 1 percentage point twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eff79ef605f59ef/6988ac67bc6cfc13c93df274/trump-leads-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Edges Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Tracking Poll > Sponsored content. 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Donald Trump addresses supporters at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on Oct. 31, 2016.Jeff Kowalsky—AFP/Getty Images  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 1, 2016 11:53 AM UTC [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4552868/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-2016-election-emails/?xid=homepage) is slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton for the first time in months, according to the latest [ABC News/Washington _Post_ tracking poll](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-leads-clinton-point-poll-enthusiasm-declines/story?id=43199459). Trump is leading with 46% of likely voters, while Clinton has 45%. The two candidates are divided by a slim .7 percentage point margin, which is well within the poll’s margin of error. Trump led Clinton in just one other ABC News/Washington _Post_ tracking poll, conducted in May shortly after he clinched the Republican nomination. At the time, Clinton and former Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders were still locked in a primary battle. The poll—conducted between Oct. 27 and Oct. 30—surveyed 1,128 likely voters and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The [RealClear Politics polling average](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general%5Felection%5Ftrump%5Fvs%5Fclinton-5491.html) for Oct. 22 to Oct. 31 shows Clinton ahead by a margin of 2.4 percentage points with 47.7% support. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Edges Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Tracking Poll","datePublished":"2016-11-01T11:53:25.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:23.537Z","description":"The Republican nominee leads by just 1 percentage point, his first lead in ABC News/Washington Post poll since May","url":"https://time.com/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eff79ef605f59ef/6988ac67bc6cfc13c93df274/trump-leads-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katie Reilly","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3eff79ef605f59ef/6988ac67bc6cfc13c93df274/trump-leads-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP","caption":"US-VOTE-REPUBLICANS-TRUMP","creditText":"Jeff Kowalsky—AFP/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/4552904/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-abc-washington-post-poll/","name":"Donald Trump Edges Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Tracking Poll"}}]}] ```