Whether or not James Comey’s revelation about Hillary Clinton's private emails has moved the needle at all among voters remains to be seen. | Getty Clinton camp on new survey showing Trump ahead: It’s ‘bad polling’

While Donald Trump’s campaign has celebrated an ABC/Washington Post survey released Tuesday that shows the Manhattan billionaire with a 1 percentage point edge, the campaign of Democrat Hillary Clinton chalked up the new numbers to “bad polling.”

“Sorry. It’s just not what we see at all; it’s not what other people seem to have,” a senior Clinton aide said to the Democrat’s traveling press pool Tuesday. “There just seems to be something about that model that seems off.”


It is the same poll that showed Trump trailing Clinton 12 points a week ago as his campaign floundered beneath the weight of sexual assault allegations against the GOP nominee and a 2005 recording on which he can be heard using vulgar language to describe how his celebrity status allowed him to sexually assault women without consequence.

But Trump’s campaign has managed to climb back into the race, going on offense as Clinton deals with news that Obamacare health insurance premiums will spike next year and the daily trickle of leaked emails hacked from the personal account of her campaign chairman. But the biggest bombshell to hit the Democratic nominee’s campaign dropped Friday, when FBI Director James Comey announced that the bureau is reviewing additional email as possible evidence in its renewed investigation into Clinton’s use of a personal email server during her tenure as secretary of state.

Whether or not Comey’s revelation has moved the needle at all among voters remains to be seen. A POLITICO/Morning Consult poll put into the field after the FBI director’s announcement shows Clinton with a 3-point lead nationwide, the same advantage she held before Comey made the bureau’s review of additional emails public.

Clinton’s senior aide told the traveling press that the former secretary of state’s campaign always expected the race to tighten and that Trump began closing the gap after the third presidential debate. The aide said the Manhattan billionaire has gained on Clinton because “Republicans started to come home to Trump” and said the Democrat’s campaign has seen no evidence that Comey’s revelation has hurt it significantly in the polls.

“The race has tightened in a way we thought it would tighten, but we do not see anything that would suggest that that FBI story is impacting it,” the aide said. “I wouldn’t say what our internals show, but we think that we have a relatively substantial national lead.”

The Clinton campaign’s “bad polls” assessment of the ABC/Washington Post survey puts it in line with Trump surrogate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who dismissed it Tuesday morning on Twitter.

“Washington Post-ABC poll is an absurdity,” he wrote. “Trump has not moved up 13 points in the last 8 days. He was NEVER 12 points behind. Ignore polls.”

