--- 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: 2026-02-23T01:32:33.337Z 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Donald Trump Edges Ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Tracking Poll  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Nov 1, 2016 11:53 AM UTC  Donald Trump addresses supporters at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on Oct. 31, 2016. 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":"2026-02-23T01:32:33.337Z","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 topic","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"}}]}] ```