--- title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll description: Hillary Clinton is ahead of her GOP rival Donald Trump in a national poll released on the eve of the Republican National Convention canonical: https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-17T13:49:37.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:44:49.525Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll og:description: Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7% og:url: https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll twitter:description: Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7% twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jul 17, 2016 1:49 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton speaks during the LULAC National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on July 14, 2016. Hillary Clinton speaks during the LULAC National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.The Washington Post—The Washington Post/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Jul 17, 2016 1:49 PM UTC Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is ahead of her GOP rival Donald Trump in a [new national poll](http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-finds-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-despite-email-report-1468760582/) released on the eve of the Republican National Convention. Clinton leads [Trump](http://time.com/4409330/donald-trump-mike-pence-vice-president-2/?xid=homepage) by 46% to 41%, according to the Wall Street _Journal_/NBC News poll, which was released on Sunday. That five-point margin remains the same from a _Journal_/NBC News survey taken last month before the FBI [criticized](http://time.com/4394178/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-investigation/) Clinton’s private email practices as “extremely careless” while she was secretary of state. The poll also found that Clinton has a huge [advantage among African-Americans](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-conventions/poll-clinton-keeps-5-point-lead-over-trump-heading-conventions-n610966/?df) with 84% supporting Clinton compared to 7% backing Trump. Clinton also had the support of voters between the ages of 18 and 29 by 55% to 32%, and women by 52% to 37%. Trump is ahead among whites by 50% to 37%, as well as among men by 46% to 39%, according to the survey. The poll interviewed 1,000 registered voters between July 9 and July 13\. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1%. \[[_WSJ_](http://www.wsj.com/articles/poll-finds-hillary-clinton-leads-donald-trump-despite-email-report-1468760582/)\] Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll","datePublished":"2016-07-17T13:49:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:44:49.525Z","description":"Clinton leads among African-Americans by 84% to 7%","url":"https://time.com/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3a85c91a2d3d9b51/69889c363c163926ca45e106/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Democratic Presumptive Nominee for President former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton speaks during the LULAC National Convention at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC on July 14, 2016.","creditText":"The Washington Post—The Washington Post/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/4409617/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-poll-rnc/","name":"Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump in New National Poll"}}]}] ```