How Third-Party Candidates Could Affect the 2016 Race
When respondents in the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll were forced to choose between just two candidates, Libertarian Gary Johnson's supporters picked Clinton at a slightly higher rate than they did Trump, 39 percent to 35 percent. Green Party candidate Jill Stein's supporters broke for Clinton more significantly, 57 percent to 18 percent for Trump.