Post FBI email announcement poll results - Clinton increases lead over Trump to 11%

Reuters/Ipsos daily tracking poll now includes data from July 5 and July 6, which is after the FBI announcement of the latest developments in the email affair that have dominated political headlines for most of the week. The polling shows that the FBI decision may have actually helped Hillary Clinton expand her lead over Donald Trump.

At the very least, the email story did not hurt Clinton in the poll, which on July 5 gave her a 10.2 percentage point lead over Trump; 40.2 percent to 30, with 29.8 percent saying that they were either undecided, intended to vote for another candidate or simply refused to answer the pollster’s questions.

But on July 6, the Hillary Clinton lead over Donald Trump had edged up to a full 11 points; 44 to 33, with just 23 percent falling into the third category.

In other words, the Reuters/Ipsos poll showed gains for both Clinton and Trump in the immediate aftermath of the FBI email announcement, and a drop in voters who said they hadn’t made up their minds, or would vote for a different candidate altogether. But Clinton’s gain slightly outpaced the headway made by Donald Trump in the daily tracking poll.

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