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Fox national poll shows Clinton leading by 6 points

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s lead over Republican Donald Trump nationally is holding steady at 6 points, according to a new poll.

A Fox News survey released Tuesday found Clinton taking 45 percent support to Trump’s 39 percent. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson is at 5 percent, and Green Party nominee Jill Stein is at 3 percent.

That’s mostly unchanged from the same poll last week, which found Clinton leading 45 to 38 percent. Trump has struggled to break out above the 40 percent mark in many national and battleground state polls, while Clinton has been edging closer to the 50 percent threshold.

Clinton has opened up a 7-point lead over Trump in the RealClearPolitics average, 46 to 39 percent.

In the Fox News poll, Clinton has a 17-point lead over Trump among women, who make up an outsized share of the electorate. Trump leads by 7 points among men.

Clinton is also running away with the contest among non-white voters, leading by 51 points, and voters under the age of 30, leading by 19 points.

Trump, meanwhile, has double-digit leads among white voters, people without a college degree, veterans and those who attend church.

The GOP nominee is being held back by tepid support from within his own party. Only 80 percent of Republicans say they support Trump, compared to 87 percent of Democrats who support Clinton.

Trump leads by 7 points among independents. Exit polls show Mitt Romney carried independents by 5 points over President Obama in 2012.

Both candidates are underwater on favorability, although Clinton is moving closer to breaking even.

Forty-seven percent view Clinton positively, compared to 51 percent who have a negative view of her. Trump has a 40-59 rating split.

And Trump is once again hampered by voter perceptions of his temperament.

While 61 percent of voters say Clinton has the right temperament to be commander in chief, 61 percent say Trump does not.

Fifty-three percent of voters say Clinton has the right judgment to serve, while only 37 percent said the same about Trump.

The Fox News survey of 912 likely voters was conducted between Oct. 15 and Oct. 17 and has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.