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Hillary Clinton holds four-point lead over Donald Trump Hillary Clinton holds up to five point lead over Donald Trump two days before election day
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Hillary Clinton has held her four point lead over Donald Trump in a poll taken days before the United States votes on who will become its next president. Small but steady. Those might be the words that sum up the lead Hillary Clinton holds in the polls over Donald Trump as the battle for the White House goes down to the wire.
Forty-four per cent of voters said they support Ms Clinton, while 40 per cent said they support Mr Trump, the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found. With two days until election day, a flurry of polls gave the Democrat a small but persistent lead over her Republican challenger, as the two candidates continued to hit the battleground states in a frantic hunt for votes.
Of the remaining voters, six per cent said they support Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and two per cent said they supported the Green Party's Jill Stein. According to the final NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released on Sunday, Ms Clinton is on 44 points, with Mr Trump on 40. Libertarian party candidate Gary Johnson was at six per cent and Green Party Candidate Jill Stein had two per cent of support.
More follows Those who carried out the poll, said Ms Clinton’s lead had fallen from the 11 point advantage she held over Mr Trump the last time the poll was conducted in the middle of October, before the FBI said it was reviewing new emails in its investigation of the former secretary of state.
Meanwhile, after running even with Donald Trump early last week, Hillary Clinton now holds a five-point lead in the latest Washington Post-ABC News Tracking Poll overall, as well as clear advantages on several personal attributes.
As Mr Trump flew to five states on Sunday, among them Minnesota, a state that has ten electoral votes and where polls suggest he trails Ms Clinton by six points, a final nationwide poll published by Politico placed him three points behind his rival - scoring it 45-42. An average of all polls collated by Real Clear Politics gives Ms Clinton a narrower lead - just 1.8 per cent. 
The nationwide polls do not tell the entire story of what is happening on the ground in key battleground states. A calculation that takes into account such trends and battles by the FiveThirtyEight website, headed by pollster Nate Silver, gives Ms Clinton a 64.2 per cent chance of securing the White House.
As Mr Trump hit the campaign trail in five states on Sunday, including Michigan, Pennsylvania and Virginia, Ms Clinton was limiting her appearances to just two - Ohio and New Hampshire.
In Ohio, she was due to appear alongside LeBron James, the Cleveland Cavalier star, beloved in the state. Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, her campaign was set to be joined by Khizr Khan, the father of slain Army Capt Humayun Khan, who died while serving in the 2004 Iraq War and whose clashes with Mr Trump erupted this summer.