--- ---  # Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15% by [Will Drabold](https://time.com/author/will-drabold/) ## Will Drabold Aug 4, 2016 9:56 PM UTC  Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, PA, on July 28, 2016 (L); Donald Trump in Cleveland, OH, on July 20, 2016. Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, PA, on July 28, 2016 (L); Donald Trump in Cleveland, OH, on July 20, 2016.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). It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points. Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15 Percent: Poll ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/"},"headline":"Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15%","datePublished":"2016-08-04T21:56:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:47:14.923Z","description":"Clinton has one of her largest leads yet in the election","url":"https://time.com/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/","keywords":["2016 Election","Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc309415409595/6988a07a196cf4d08003caba/cinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Will Drabold","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/will-drabold/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd1bc309415409595/6988a07a196cf4d08003caba/cinton-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"cinton-trump","caption":"Hillary Clinton in Philadelphia, PA, on July 28, 2016 (L); Donald Trump in Cleveland, OH, on July 20, 2016.","creditText":"Getty Images (2)","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/4439918/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-marist-poll/","name":"Poll: Hillary Clinton Is Beating Donald Trump By 15%"}}]}] ```