The number of respondents who said they are either planning to vote for Clinton spiked 5 points relative to the previous Fox News poll. | AP Photo Fox national poll: Clinton up 10 over Trump

Hillary Clinton’s post-convention bounce and Donald Trump’s rough week have combined to deliver the former secretary of state a double-digit lead in a fresh poll released Wednesday evening.

Clinton holds a 10-point advantage over the Manhattan billionaire, 49 percent to 39 percent, according to the new Fox News poll. The number of respondents who said they are either planning to vote for Clinton or leaning in her direction spiked 5 points relative to the previous Fox News poll, which was conducted in the midst of the Democratic National Convention, while Trump’s number climbed only a single point.


In a three-way race that includes Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, both Clinton’s and Trump’s support among those polled took a 5-point dip to 44 percent and 35 percent, respectively. Johnson, the former governor of New Mexico, earned the support of 12 percent of respondents.

The former secretary of state’s lead follows a week in which she and her running mate Tim Kaine have campaigned across the country in the wake of a well-received Democratic National Convention. Trump, meanwhile, has spent the week once again mired in controversy, the result of his decision to attack the Muslim Gold Star parents who criticized him in a speech at the DNC and his refusal to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) in their upcoming primaries.

The new Fox News poll was the first to include both the presidential and vice presidential candidates in questions to respondents about who they support.

Fifty percent of those who responded to the Fox News poll said their decision on who to support in November’s general election would more accurately represent a vote against a particular candidate, while 44 percent said their vote would be because because they actually like a particular candidate. More than half, 52 percent, of those who said they either support Trump or are leaning in his direction specified that their vote represented a vote against Clinton.

Republicans who responded to the poll were nearly equally split on Trump as their party’s presidential nominee. Forty-nine percent of those polled said they would rather have someone else as the GOP nominee, while 50 percent said they would rather have Trump than an alternate candidate.

On the question of the candidates’ readiness to serve as president, 43 percent said Trump is either very or somewhat qualified to become commander in chief, compared to 58 percent who said he is either not very or not at all qualified. Clinton scored better on that question, with 65 percent of respondents answering that she is qualified to be president, while 35 percent she is not.

Just 36 percent of those polled said Clinton could be considered honest and trustworthy, while 61 percent said she could not. But those numbers are nearly identical to Trump’s: 36 percent said they found the Manhattan billionaire honest and trustworthy, while 62 percent did not.

The Fox News poll was conducted from July 31 to Aug. 2, reaching 1,022 registered voters nationwide via both landlines and cell phones. Among those polled, 370 were Republicans and 434 were Democrats. The margin of error for the full sample size was plus-or-minus 3 points, while the margin of error for Republicans and Democrats was plus-or-minus 5 points and 4.5 points, respectively.