It's no secret that Florida is a key swing state in the 2020 general election, just like it's no secret that President Trump's response to the novel COVID-19 coronavirus will likely be the most crucial determining factor in November's outcome.
A new poll released Monday by the University of North Florida, therefore, doesn't signal good news for the president. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination, leads Trump by six percentage points among voters in the survey, and some of that difference can likely be attributed to the fact that 53 percent of those surveyed don't approve of how Trump is handling the crisis compared to 45 percent of those who do.
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