"Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace Christopher (Chris) WallaceBiden town hall draws 3.3 million viewers for CNN Gates says travel ban made COVID-19 worse in US CNN slammed for soft questions during Biden town hall: 'The media is broken' MORE said the race between President Trump Donald John TrumpObama calls on Senate not to fill Ginsburg's vacancy until after election Planned Parenthood: 'The fate of our rights' depends on Ginsburg replacement Progressive group to spend M in ad campaign on Supreme Court vacancy MORE and presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden Joe BidenSenate Republicans face tough decision on replacing Ginsburg What Senate Republicans have said about election-year Supreme Court vacancies Biden says Ginsburg successor should be picked by candidate who wins on Nov. 3 MORE will ultimately be a referendum on the way that Trump has handled the coronavirus outbreak.

The anchor added that if Trump is seen as handling it well, he "doesn't see how he gets beat."

The perspective from Wallace, delivered on "America's Newsroom," comes as a new Fox News poll shows a dead heat between Trump and Biden, with each candidate getting 42 percent of the vote.

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"In all of our polls for months, Biden had a 8-9 point lead, and that's now gone. It's dead even," Wallace noted.

"It seems to me as this virus goes on, that instead of this being a choice between the president and Joe Biden, as a lot of elections are, I think that this election is going to end up being a referendum on President Trump and the handling of the coronavirus," he continued.

"As we get into September and October after Labor Day, I think people are going to make a judgement, and they'll understand, the president didn't create the virus, so I think they're going to be fair-minded about it," Wallace added before asking, "Do they think he handled the health crisis well? Do they think he handled the economic crisis well?"

"If they do, I don't see how he gets beat," he concluded. "If they don't, I don't see how he could win."

With public campaign events suspended amid the pandemic, Biden has conducted interviews and what have been described as "shadow coronavirus briefings" from his Delaware home.

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But the former vice president has gained little traction on the media front compared to Trump, who is seen by an average of 8.5 million people during his coronavirus task force briefings as the pandemic has dwarfed almost all 2020 political coverage.

Trump also received 51 percent approval of his handling of the coronavirus crisis in the same Fox News poll, with his overall approval rating coming in at 49 percent, an all-time high in the poll.

Anthony Fauci Anthony FauciOvernight Health Care: CDC reverses controversial testing guidance | Billions more could be needed for vaccine distribution | Study examines danger of in-flight COVID-19 transmission Trump claims enough COVID-19 vaccines will be ready for every American by April Gates says travel ban made COVID-19 worse in US MORE, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received 80 percent approval of his handling of the pandemic, while Deboroah Birx, a medical doctor who is heading up the White House response team, received 62 percent approval and Vice President Pence clocked in at 52 percent in the same poll.