Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during the Outdoor Channel and Sportsman Channel's 16th annual Outdoor Sportsman Awards at The Venetian Las Vegas during the 2016 National Shooting Sports Foundation's Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show on January 21. | Getty Trump passes Clinton in polling average

Donald Trump has passed Hillary Clinton in a weekly average of head-to-head polls for the first time, albeit by a minuscule margin.

On the strength of two polls released Sunday, the presumptive Republican nominee holds an advantage of 43.4 percent to 43.2 percent in the Real Clear Politics average. Trump edged Clinton 46 percent to 44 percent in an ABC News/Washington Post survey, while Clinton led Trump 46 percent to 43 percent in an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll despite having led by double digits up until that point. A Fox News poll released last Wednesday showed Trump leading 45 percent to 42 percent, while a CBS News/New York Times poll represents the only recent survey in which Clinton led Trump, 47 percent to 41 percent.


Trump's momentum comes after recent weeks of discussion about whether the Republican Party would unify behind him as the nominee. Following meetings with congressional leaders, Trump has earned the backing of several more members of Congress, with the exception of House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) who has noted good progress but has declined to offer his full-throated endorsement as of Monday.

During an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Clinton — who is likely to get her own polling bump if and when she dispatches Bernie Sanders as Democrats rally behind her — remarked that "polls this far out mean nothing."

"They certainly mean nothing to me," the Democratic front-runner said. "And I think if people go back and look, they really mean nothing in terms of analyzing what's going to happen in the fall."