A new national poll taken after Monday’s presidential debate shows Hillary Clinton improving her standing over Donald Trump. The Fox News survey released Friday shows Clinton with 43% support of likely voters compared to Trump’s 40%, with Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson receiving 8% support and Green Party candidate Jill Stein getting 4% support. Clinton’s 3-point edge is right on the poll’s 3-point margin of error. The poll shows a slight improvement for Clinton from a Fox survey done earlier this month, when she and Trump were just about even, 41% for Clinton and 40% for Trump. In a two-way matchup, Friday’s poll has even more good news for Clinton: she leads Trump 49% to 44%. Donald Trump quintuples down Trump’s performance at Monday night’s debate was widely panned, and a CNN/ORC poll taken immediately after the event found 62% of voters who turned in to watch said Clinton bettered Trump, whom only 27% said had the better night. In the Fox poll, 28% of likely voters found the economy/jobs/unemployment to be the most important issue facing the country. National security/Terrorism/ISIS came in second with 17% and race relations/racial issues/police came in third with 8% support. Additionally, the poll found that 35% of likely voters surveyed found Clinton to be honest and trustworthy, while 61% did not. And for Trump, 31% found him to be honest and trustworthy, while 62% of likely voters did not. The poll was conducted September 27-29 among 911 likely voters. Its margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
