Hillary Clinton extended her lead in Wisconsin over Donald Trump during the weekend, the Marquette Law School Poll reports.
The poll was taken from Thursday through Sunday — before the second presidential debate — so it contains responses from before, during and after the release of an embarrassing 11-year-old videotape that caught Trump saying profane things about women, including the suggestion that he grabbed them by the genitals. The Washington Post broke the news of the videotape on Friday.
A release from Marquette quotes Charles Franklin, the poll’s director, as saying, “The publication appears to have caused a significant shift in Wisconsin voters’ attitudes, across several different demographics.”
Democratic candidate Clinton’s lead over the GOP’s Trump was 44 percent to 37 percent among likely voters, according to the release. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson was at 9 percent, and the Green Party’s Jill Stein was at 3 percent. The previous poll, conducted Sept. 15-18, had Clinton at 41 percent and Trump at 38 percent, with Johnson at 11 percent and Stein at 2 percent.
The poll also assessed support in the race for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, and the result was within the poll’s 3.9 percent margin of error, according to the release. Former Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, had 46 percent, incumbent GOP Sen. Ron Johnson had 44 percent and Libertarian Phil Anderson had 4 percent.
