Of all the new national and battleground-state polling out over the past few days, only two were conducted entirely after a number of women went public to claim Trump assaulted or harassed them. And those two polls show Clinton with some of her largest leads.
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CBS News poll, conducted last Wednesday (the day many of the allegations became public) through Sunday, gives Clinton an 11-point lead over Trump in an initial, two-way matchup. In a subsequent question that includes the third-party candidates, Clinton’s lead contracts to 9 points.
Clinton’s lead is 12 points in a
Monmouth University poll conducted Friday through Sunday. The Monmouth poll was the most recent: Friday through Sunday.
Those two new polls — conducted at perhaps Trump’s lowest moment of the general election — not only have Clinton with large leads, but they also show Trump’s support cratering. Trump is at only 40 percent in the CBS News poll’s two-way matchup, and he earns just 38 percent in the four-way ballot test. The Monmouth poll also shows Trump at only 38 percent in a four-way ballot test.
That leaves Trump perilously close to a historic rebuke from American voters for a major-party candidate.
If Trump did slip below that 38-percent figure, it would be extraordinary in the modern era of presidential politics.