Poll: Clinton up 6 points on Trump nationally

Hillary Clinton is 6 points ahead of Donald Trump nationally as their White House race nears its end, according to a new poll.

Clinton leads Trump 45 percent to 39 percent with early and likely voters in the Reuters/Ipsos survey released late Wednesday.

{mosads}Pollsters found Clinton’s lead over Trump grows to 8 points, however, when third-party candidates enter the fray.

Clinton notches 45 percent in a four-way race, while Trump, the Republican nominee, trails the Democratic nominee at 37 percent, according to the poll.

Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson grabs 5 percent, while Green Party nominee Jill Stein ranks last at 2 percent.

Reuters said Thursday that Clinton’s 6-point advantage remains unchanged from its last poll with Ipsos one week ago.

Clinton edged out Trump 43 percent to 37 percent in that version, which came out the day before FBI Director James Comey’s letter to Congress roiled the presidential race.

Comey’s Oct. 28 message said his agency may have found new emails “pertinent” to its investigation of the private email server Clinton used as secretary of State.

The FBI uncovered the potentially significant emails in a separate probe of former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), the estranged husband of longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin.

Trump has frequently asserted Clinton’s use of a private email server at the State Department may have jeopardized sensitive national intelligence.

Since Comey’s letter, the race between Clinton and Trump has tightened in both national and state polls.

Clinton leads Trump by about 2 percentage points nationwide, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average of surveys.

Reuters/Ipsos conducted its latest survey of 1,772 early or likely voters via online interviews from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1. It has a margin of error of 3 percentage points.