--- title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by 10 Points in New Poll description: The American electorate prefers Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton over Republican Donald Trump by 10 points — 51 to 41% canonical: https://time.com/4466391/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll/ author: Julia Zorthian article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-25T17:27:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:42.204Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by 10 Points in New National Poll og:description: The new Quinnipiac poll also shows 62% of Americans think Clinton will win og:url: https://time.com/4466391/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd7a36bedd5266c/6988a3acfb4eac125088edfb/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5099 og:image:height: 2868 og:image:alt: hillary clinton donald trump quinnipiac poll og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by 10 Points in New National Poll twitter:description: The new Quinnipiac poll also shows 62% of Americans think Clinton will win twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2dd7a36bedd5266c/6988a3acfb4eac125088edfb/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-quinnipiac-poll.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton Leads Donald Trump by 10 Points in New National Poll > Sponsored content. 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Jessica Kourkounis—Getty Images  by [Julia Zorthian](https://time.com/author/julia-zorthian/)  ## Julia Zorthian Aug 25, 2016 5:27 PM UTC The American electorate prefers [Democratic nominee for President Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4465809/why-hillary-clinton-is-taking-on-the-alt-right/) over [Republican Donald Trump](http://time.com/4465543/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-bigot-mississippi-rally/) by 10 points — 51 to 41% — [a Quinnipiac University](https://www.qu.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2375) poll of likely voters published on Thursday finds. When Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein are included in the poll, that lead shrinks to 45% support for Clinton compared to 38% support for Trump (Johnson and Stein received 10% and 4% respectively). Quinnipiac found that non-white voters and women voters accounted largely for Clinton’s nationwide lead. The differences between the groups and their counterparts are significant: Women back Clinton over Trump 60–36%, the poll found, while men back Trump over Clinton 48–42%. The trend is similar for non-white voters, who back Clinton 77–15%, versus white voters, who back Trump 52–41%. The results also showed that regardless of who they’re voting for, most people polled (62%) believe that Clinton will win the election, while only 28% believe Trump will win. 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