Hillary Clinton has a slight lead over Donald Trump when third-party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein are included. | Getty Fox poll shows Trump and Clinton in statistical tie nationwide

After weeks of maintaining a more focused tone on the campaign trail as his opponent has struggled to maintain her post-convention momentum, Donald Trump is locked in a statistical tie nationwide with Hillary Clinton, according to a poll released Thursday night.

In a four-way race that also includes Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, Clinton leads Trump among likely voters by just a single percentage point, 41 percent to 40 percent, a margin that lies within the Fox News poll’s margin of error. Johnson polled at 8 percent and Stein at 3 percent.


In a head-to-head race that excludes Johnson and Stein, Trump pulls ahead of Clinton among registered voters, 46 percentage points to 45, the first time since January that the Manhattan billionaire has held a two-way lead over the former secretary of state in the Fox News poll.

After leading in some polls by double-digits in the wake of the nominating conventions, Clinton’s lead appears to have shrunk in recent weeks amid health concerns (she took three days off this week after being diagnosed with pneumonia) and the release of the FBI’s notes from its investigation into her personal email server.

Meanwhile, Trump’s reshuffled campaign staff has been mostly successful in keeping the Manhattan billionaire on message, pivoting away from the personal attacks that bogged down his White House bid over the summer. Trump seemed to revert to such attacks Thursday, when he said a pastor who interrupted his speech at an African-American church in Flint, Michigan, was “so nervous, she was shaking” as she introduced him.

Likely voters reached by the poll favored Clinton when asked who would do a better job of handling race relations and immigration, but said Trump would do better with the economy and dealing with corruption in government.

The Fox News poll was conducted from Sept. 11 to 14 via landlines and cellphones, reaching 1,006 registered voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Of those 1,006 voters, 867 were identified as likely voters, also with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 points.