Blame it on that locker-room banter. But for Donald Trump, the pre-debate poll numbers are not pretty.

In the wake of the release earlier this month of his embarrassing hot-mic moment in 2005 during an appearance on Access Hollywood, Trump has seen his standing in national polls not just sitting, but falling down the stairs. What a difference a few weeks make: on the eve of the last presidential debate, polls showed the race tightening with Trump gaining steadily on his opponent Hillary Clinton. Related Articles Tonight’s debate: What do those emails say about Hillary Clinton?

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Now, with only hours to go before their third and final standoff, the two candidates find themselves in a completely new political landscape. And while negative ratings are still high for both of them, Clinton is pulling ahead of Trump in all sorts of ways.

Consider:

The latest Fox News electoral ratings now show once-reliable red states coming into play as the guy at the top of the ticket struggles to answer charges from more than ten women that he had acted in sexually inappropriate ways toward them.

While Clinton struggles to keep her own campaign on track, grappling with embarrassing revelations from internal campaign emails released by WikiLeaks in recent days, the Democratic candidate enjoys a 9-point lead over Trump heading into this all-important debate, according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday: 47 percent to Trump’s 38 percent, with Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein collecting some of the leftover scraps.

Clinton is showing a strong momentum heading into the debate, making sizable gains in the Bloomberg poll among several key demographics, including some that been solid Trump bastions until now. Clinton is now winning male voters, 46-to-44 percent, as well as voters without a college degree, 48-to-44 percent.

And there’s strong evidence that no matter how much Trump thinks he may have defused the hot-mic-borne crisis rattling his campaign, the poll also found that 56 percent of voters said the 2005 recording of the candidate boasting about sexually assaulting women “will be a concern” as they head for the voting booth; that compares with a much lower 40 percent who said he had put the issues to rest.

A couple of other numbers that show Clinton in a stronger position than her opponent as they prepare to do battle:

93: percentage of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters who say they back Clinton.

85: corresponding number for Trump among Republic voters or those leaning that way.

And in one of the most significant shifts taking place this week on the campaign trail, according to the Fox poll, is the rating for Texas, which is being changed from “solid Republican” to “lean Republican.”

And as any good steak-lovin’ Texan knows, lean ain’t good.

Finally, on FiveThirtyEight website, where the gurus of opinion-poll analysis work their magic as they pore over 929 national polls, Clinton comes out on top in every single one of them, with leads over Trump in October surveys of anywhere from one to 13 points. Check it out here.