A CNN polling average released Friday shows Donald Trump has cut Hillary Clinton’s lead by 50 percent since her post-convention bump.
The Democratic presidential nominee has an average of 42 percent support to Trump’s 37 percent, according to five nationwide telephone polls conducted between Aug. 9 and 30.
CNN notes the five-point lead Clinton has was a lead she started with at the beginning of her campaign in the fall, but one week after the Democratic convention closed in Philadelphia, she led Trump 49 percent to 39 percent.
“The average suggests Clinton has taken a bigger hit, losing seven points since early August while Trump dipped just two points. But Trump’s starting point was far lower, and below that of a typical Republican candidate,” CNN said of its poll.
The poll also factored in Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, who received 9 percent and Green Party candidate Jill Stein who garnered 4 percent, both still below the 15 percent needed to get on the debate stage with Clinton and Trump.
The CNN average includes the numbers of the five latest publicly released national polls: the Pew Research Center poll conducted Aug. 9-16, the Quinnipiac University poll conducted Aug. 18-24, the Monmouth University poll conducted Aug. 25-28, the Suffolk University/USA Today poll conducted Aug. 24-29, and the Fox News poll conducted Aug. 28-30.