Donald Trump was already unpopular, but he just hit a new low

Seven in every 10 Americans holds a negative opinion of Donald Trump, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released on Wednesday, marking the highest unfavorability rating for the presumptive Republican nominee in the entire 2016 campaign.

Clinton is also not happily looked upon by Americans, holding a negative favorability rating of 55 percent — but despite Clinton being her least liked in two decades, she is still vastly preferred to Trump, whom 56 percent of respondents said they "strongly" disliked. In fact, Trump's negative ratings have skyrocketed up 10 percentage points since last month.

Trump in particular lost favor with independents and white Americans without college degrees. And despite his appeals to Hispanics, 89 percent hold an unfavorable opinion of him in the Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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The majority of the poll's interviews took place before the Orlando nightclub shooting, between June 8-12 among a random sample of 1,000 adults on cell and landline phones. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 points.