Donald Trump is starting to noticeably cut into Hillary Clinton's once gigantic lead in the polls
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Donald Trump is gaining ground on Hillary Clinton nationally.
The Republican presidential nominee, who faced a mid-August deficit of nearly 8 points in the RealClearPolitics head-to-head polling average against Clinton, his Democratic opponent, has cut that lead nearly in half.
Clinton on Thursday led Trump by 4.6 points in the head-to-head matchup, while her lead was down to 3.6 points in the polling average that includes Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
That came as numerous recent polls showed Trump increasingly close to Clinton. Wednesday polls from Fox News and Reuters showed Trump down 2 points in a four-way matchup against Clinton, Johnson, and Stein, while a poll from Rasmussen, a right-leaning polling outlet, showed him with a 1-point lead.
Renowned statistician Nate Silver's "Polls-plus" forecast on FiveThirtyEight on Thursday showed Trump with a 30% chance of winning the election. Silver's projections as recently as early August showed Clinton's chance of winning in November at more than 90%.
Trump seemed to acknowledge the push in a Thursday tweet:
https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/771298236376178688
Poll numbers way up - making big progress!
Still, Clinton has come out ahead in virtually every poll since the end of July, with just two national polls listed on RealClearPolitics showing Trump ahead in either a head-to-head or a four-way matchup. A whopping 66 polls show Clinton on top.
View some of the latest polling data below:
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