Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump, 52 percent-38 percent, among likely voters in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey conducted over the weekend, before Sunday night’s debate.
In a four-way matchup including Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green party nominee Jill Stein, Clinton led Trump, 46 percent-35 percent, with Johnson at 9 percent and Stein at 2 percent.
The poll was conducted after news broke on Friday about a video in which Trump can be heard boasting that he can grope women because “when you’re a star, they let you do it.”
Trump’s problems may be washing over his party, as well, either by tainting it with his own unpopularity or by discouraging Republican turnout, the poll indicated. Asked which party they would favor in congressional elections, likely voters sided with the Democrats, 49 percent-42 percent, the poll found.
That result is up from a 3-point Democratic advantage last month. Whether it would be large enough to overturn the Republican majority in the House, however, is not clear.