US presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is increasingly eating into likely Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s national lead in the race for the White House, a CNN Poll of Polls has found, projecting a tight race for the November vote.
The survey, published on Wednesday, showed that the former secretary of state’s average lead over Trump across five recent nationwide polls has shrunk to a mere 2 percent, with Clinton holding an average of 45 percent support against the real estate mogul’s 43 percent.
The findings project a very different race than many anticipated based on the two candidates’ public polling performance throughout March and April, with the former first lady leading Trump with double-digit margins in 10 out of 14 major polls.
The Poll of Polls also suggested that about 1 in each 8 registered American voters was not backing Clinton or Trump.
Trump essentially secured the GOP nomination back in early May, when…