Multiple national polls this week show President Trump, for the first time, starting to fall behind Democratic rival Joe Biden on the key issue of his reelection campaign: the economy.

Democrats point to it as an early sign of the tide turning against Trump with regard to the public’s perception of his handling of the virus and the economy, but Republicans say that there’s still time to change people’s opinions and that some polls are flat-out wrong.

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