Looking back four years, Hillary Clinton had a favorability rating of 42% heading into her convention, 8 points below Biden’s now. By late October, she and Trump were equally unpopular, taking favorability off the table as a differentiating factor in that election.

Trump’s underwater favorability reflects views of his job performance overall — 43% approve, while 55% disapprove, similar to last month. He remains the only president in modern polling, since the Truman administration, never to reach majority approval, with the lowest career average approval as president on record. Further, strong disapprovers of Trump’s performance outnumber strong approvers by 18 points.

Fifty-nine percent disapprove specifically of Trump’s handling of the pandemic. As many say it has had severe economic impacts in their community. Sixty-five percent remain very or somewhat worried they may catch the virus, steady for months. And, as noted, just 14% say the outbreak is completely or mostly under control.