--- title: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15 Percent: Poll description: Hillary Clinton is beating Donald Trump by 15 percent in a new poll canonical: https://time.com/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/ author: Will Drabold article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-04T21:56:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:46.443Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump by 15% og:description: Clinton has one of her largest leads yet in the election og:url: https://time.com/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc309415409595/6988a07a196cf4d08003caba/cinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2857 og:image:height: 1607 og:image:alt: cinton-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump by 15% twitter:description: Clinton has one of her largest leads yet in the election twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc309415409595/6988a07a196cf4d08003caba/cinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15% > Sponsored content. 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Getty Images (2) by [Will Drabold](https://time.com/author/will-drabold/) ## Will Drabold Aug 4, 2016 9:56 PM UTC A new poll shows Hillary Clinton jumping to a 15-point lead against Donald Trump in the presidential race. The poll, which comes after both political party conventions, shows Clinton beating Trump 48% to 33% across the country. [The McClatchy-Marist poll](http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article93763582.html) shows Clinton with one of her largest leads of the race. The same poll showed Clinton leading Trump by only three percent last month. A growing Clinton lead has been reflected in a variety of new polls. The [RealClearPolitics average of polls](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general%5Felection%5Ftrump%5Fvs%5Fclinton-5491.html) shows Clinton leading Trump by an average of 5.8 points. A new poll shows Clinton up by eight [points in Pennsylvania](http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/pa/pennsylvania%5Ftrump%5Fvs%5Fclinton-5633.html) and six [points in Florida](http://www.suffolk.edu/documents/SUPRC/8%5F4%5F2016%5Fmarginals.pdf). The polling gap has grown following Trump criticizing a Gold Star family and leading Republicans reprimanding him for his comments. The [survey of 1,132 adults across the United States was conducted Aug. 1-3](https://www.scribd.com/document/320225575/McClatchy-Marist-Poll-National-Nature-of-the-Sample-and-Tables-August-2016). 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