There’s one set of polling that Trump likes to talk about, though, that is at odds with this pattern. Trump frequently talks and tweets about how polls show him beating Hillary Clinton, when in fact polls almost always show the exact opposite.

“The other thing is, I beat Hillary in many of the polls taken, and each week I get better and I haven’t even started on her yet,” he said at a debate earlier this month.

In an average of four out of five polls since last May, Clinton beats Trump outright. That includes Internet-based polls and polls from less-reliable pollsters. (This data comes from Huffington Post Pollster’s collection of poll numbers.) Focusing only on major, live-caller polls, the margin extends to nearly nine out of 10.

Since Jan. 1 of this year, Trump has led in only five of 39 polls, including only two of the 16 that used live callers.

Since voting began, Trump has beaten Clinton in precisely one of the 29 polls that have been conducted.

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Notice that yellow line, too. That’s the trend of the live-phone polls over time. For a while, the race between the two appeared to be narrowing. Now, Clinton is pulling away again. In polls conducted over the last week, Clinton leads by an average of 11 points.

This isn’t predictive. There’s a lot of campaign to happen before we get to a Clinton-Trump general election in November. The point is really that Trump’s claims he beats Clinton are based on essentially nothing.