Getty Poll: Trump leads Clinton after Republican convention

Donald Trump got a bounce from the Republican National Convention, jumping out in front of Hillary Clinton in a new CNN/ORC International poll released Monday, conducted in the days following the party gathering.

Trump leads Clinton 48 percent to 45 percent in a two-way matchup, compared with the presumptive Democratic nominee's seven-point advantage (49 percent to 42 percent) in the CNN/ORC poll conducted the previous week.


In a four-way matchup with Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Trump's advantage actually increases to 5 points—44 percent to 39 percent, while Johnson earned 9 percent and Stein 3 percent. The previous four-way survey found Clinton with a five-point lead over Trump, 42 percent to 37 percent, while Johnson had 13 percent and Stein 5 percent.

Trump gained significantly with independent voters. Before the convention, 34 percent said they supported Clinton, while 31 percent backed Trump. But in the survey, which entered the field on Friday, 46 percent said they back Trump, 28 percent for Clinton, 15 percent for Johnson and 4 percent for Stein.

Trump also leads Clinton by 39 points among whites without college degrees, 62 percent to 23 percent, while Clinton now leads among whites holding at least a bachelor's degree, 44 percent to 39 percent, compared with a 40 percent to 40 percent split in the previous survey.

In terms of favorability, Trump rose seven points, from 39 percent to 46 percent and he now enjoys a double-digit lead over Clinton on issues related to the economy and terrorism. As far being trustworthy, 43 percent said they would apply that label to the Manhattan businessman, up 5 points from before the convention, while 30 percent said the same of the former secretary of state. Elsewhere, 52 percent said Trump is running for president for the good of the country rather than for personal gain, while 44 percent said the same of Clinton.

Even with Trump's significant bump, the GOP convention itself got less than rave reviews from those surveyed, with 58 percent saying too much time was spent attacking Democrats and 18 percent deemed Trump's acceptance speech "terrible." That's the highest share of voters who have given that response since the survey began asking the question in 1996.

Ted Cruz, who stirred up a chorus of boos with his refusal to endorse Trump in his speech, took a 27-point hit in terms of Republican voters' favorability toward him. Before the speech, 60 percent of Republicans said they saw him favorably. Only 33 percent said they see him positively now.

The poll was conducted July 22-24 via landlines and cellphones, surveying 882 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.