American Presidential election race for the White House has narrowed noticeably as Hillary Clinton is sought to shake off a renewed FBI probe of her emails and Donald Trump blitzed in the western states, just nine days ahead of the vote. An ABC News / Washington Post poll has put the Democratic presidential candidates just ahead of her Republican challenger Donald Trump at a wafer thin margin of one point, with 46-45 percent in a four-way race.

Republicans' growing unity behind their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, has helped to pull him just 1 percentage point behind Hillary Clinton. The Post-ABC Tracking Poll continues to find a very tight race, with Clinton at 46 percent and Trump at 45 percent among the likely voters in the interviews from Tuesday through Friday.

The two major nominees for presidentship are followed by the Libertarian Gary Johnson, at 4 percent and the Green Party's Jill Stein, at 2 percent. The result is 47-to-45 Clinton-Trump margin in the previous wave released on Saturday. It is smaller than what was found in the other surveys this week.

When likely voters are asked to choose between Clinton and Trump alone, Clinton was chosen by 49 percent and Trump by 46 percent, a statistically insignificant margin.

By Premji