FLASHBACK: Polls Released in October of 2016 Said Hillary Clinton Was Ahead By 14 Points

In the month leading up to the presidential election in 2016, many polls predicted President Trump’s impending failure.

In an article updated October 10th, 2016, CBS News reported that then Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton had opened up a 14-percentage-point lead against Trump nationally, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Monday October 7th, 2016.

They said that the survey found that in a two-way race between the two nominees, Clinton lead Trump 52 percent to 38 percent, up from a 7-percentage-point September 2016 lead.

The poll claimed that a majority of voters, 52 percent, said the videotape of Trump making lewd comments about women in 2005 that surfaced Friday October 4th, 2016 should be an issue in the campaign while 42 percent said it shouldn’t be an issue. 

Fourteen percent of respondents at the time believed the videotapes should prompt House and Senate Republicans to call on Trump to drop out of the presidential race and 9 percent said those Republicans should drop their endorsements of Trump.

The poll came out on the heels of a House Republican Conference call in which Speaker Paul Ryan, who didn’t run for re-election in 2018, told his members that he wouldn’t defend Trump anymore, wouldn’t campaign with him, and would focus over the next 30 days on keeping the House majority, according to a Republican on the conference call.

Time Magazine reported on October 26th, 2016, 12 days before the presidential election, that Clinton was also leading Trump by 14 percentage points nationally, that according to a Associated Press-GfK poll that now goes to a dead link.

The poll was conducted after the final presidential debate and found that the Democratic nominee lead Trump among likely voters 51% to 37%, in what they called “a significant lead over the Republican candidate.”

According to the poll, Clinton had support of 90% of likely Democratic voters, as well as support from 15% of moderate Republicans and of the Republicans surveyed, 79% said they would vote for Trump.

The poll found that Clinton had supposedly consolidated the support of her party, while even managing to draw Republican voters.

Fox News announced yesterday that an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll shows Democratic nominee Joe Biden with a 14 point lead nationally over President Trump, following the first presidential debate last week.