Getty Third poll shows Clinton's lead widening after debate

Hillary Clinton's lead in the Democratic race for the nomination has grown only wider, according to the results of a new national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday.

Clinton picked up 49 percent, while Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders drew 29 percent and Vice President Joe Biden, who has not announced whether he will run, took in just 15 percent. The numbers would appear to suggest that the former secretary of state is the only candidate who benefited from last week's Las Vegas debate. It's a decrease of 6 points from last month for Sanders.


In a new ABC News/Washington Post poll out Tuesday as well, Clinton took 54 percent, while Sanders earned 23 percent and Biden 16 percent. In that poll, it's a 12-point increase from last month for Clinton.

Clinton drew similar results from national CNN/ORC and Monmouth University surveys released Monday.

In the NBC/WSJ poll, with Biden not included among the candidates, Clinton's lead over Sanders grew to 58 percent to 33 percent, 10 points wider than last month's poll in the same question.

On whether Biden should run, a plurality of 38 percent said that they would prefer that he not run, while 30 percent wanted to see him run and 31 percent had no opinion one way or the other. Clinton led Biden among nonwhite voters, 50 percent to 25 percent.

The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll was conducted Oct. 15-18, surveying 400 voters who said they were likely to vote in the Democratic primary. The margin of error is plus or minus 4.9 percentage points. For the ABC News/Washington Post poll, 444 registered voters who leaned Democrat were surveyed, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.5 percentage points.