Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has widened his lead over Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times daily tracking poll to nearly 5 points. As of Sept. 14, Trump leads Clinton 46.7% to 42.0% in the poll.
That lead is Trump’s largest in the “Daybreak” poll since July 30, when his post-Republican National Convention bounce began to fade as Clinton enjoyed her own bounce after the Democratic National Convention.
Trump has now benefited from a 6.1% swing in the poll since September 11, the day Clinton appeared to lose consciousness at the 9/11 Memorial in New York, and her campaign struggled to explain why, giving new weight to fears about her health.
The day before, Clinton had struggled to explain comments that had of Trump’s supporters were a “basket of deplorables.