At first, it should be noted, the data suggest otherwise. Fifty percent of Clinton voters now say they “mainly support Clinton” vs. only 46 percent who “mainly oppose Trump,” a 10-point swing from the 46-52 split a month ago. She had a similar swing in favorability, from a 42 percent “favorable” rating and 54 percent “unfavorable” in July to a more even 48-50 split. But Trump also got a 4-point swing in “support Trump” vs. “oppose Clinton,” as well, and an increase in his favorability, despite losing ground by most other measures.

The starker gap comes not in the candidates’ personal numbers but in head-to-head comparisons. For example, only 38 percent of Americans think Clinton is honest and trustworthy — essentially unchanged from previous Post-ABC polls. Two-thirds still believe she is “too willing to bend the rules.” However, when asked in July which candidate was more honest and trustworthy, respondents were split 39-39. Now Clinton wins 49-40.

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The gap has widened on other comparisons as well. Fifty-five percent of Americans now think Clinton “better understands the problems of people like you,” compared with 35 percent for Trump. In July, that split was 48-35. Clinton now leads 51-42 on who “would do more to make the country safer and more secure”; in May (the last time the Post-ABC poll asked this question), she only led by 3 points. And Clinton continues to win across the board when voters are asked whom they would trust to better handle a wide variety of issues.

Of course, there is one thing that clearly has hurt Trump: his fight with the family of Humayun Khan, the Muslim American who was killed while serving as a U.S. Army captain in Iraq. An astonishing 73 percent of voters, including 61 percent of Republicans, disapprove of Trump’s comments — 56 percent strongly. It cannot be a coincidence then that the past month has seen a 7-point swing in voters who think Trump is biased against women and minorities, from 56-39 to 60-36. And Trump’s issues run deeper than just his attack on the Khans: Before pundits repeat the line that most Americans are sick of political correctness, they should note that The Post-ABC poll found that 57 percent of voters think Trump “goes too far in criticizing other people and groups,” compared with only 42 percent who think he “tells it like it is.”