Clinton and Trump neck-and-neck in new national poll

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are in a virtual tie in a national poll released Thursday.

The CBS News/New York Times poll of likely voters found that the Democratic nominee is just 2 points ahead of Trump in a two-way matchup (46%-44%.) That difference is within the margin of error.

Trump leads with men, 50%-39%, while Clinton leads with women, 52%-39%.

Trump also leads Clinton with white voters, 51%-40%.

And despite recent efforts to increase support from African Americans from Trump, Clinton had a massive lead with black voters: 89% to Trump’s 6%.

Clinton has a larger margin with registered voters — when likelihood of voting is not taken into account — she has 46%, Trump has 41%.

National poll: Clinton leads Trump, but gap narrowing

When Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were added into the mix, Clinton and Trump tied at 42% with likely voters. Johnson had 8% and Stein had 4%.

The telephone poll was conducted Sept. 9-13. The sample of likely voters came from 1,433 registered voters who were each assigned with a probability of voting based on their responses to the survey. The margin of error is plus or minus 3 points.