NEW FOX NEWS GENERAL ELECTION POLL JUST IN: Biden 49% (+7) Trump 42% Approval: Biden 53% Trump 43%

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is up 49-42 percent over President Donald Trump in a head-to-head matchup, according to a national Fox News survey of registered voters. Nine percent are undecided or back a third-party candidate.

Since March 2019, Trump’s support has stayed between 38-42 percent, and Biden’s lead has been outside the poll’s margin of sampling error 16 times. At the same time, the Democrat’s current 7-point lead is a bit lower than his 8-point advantage last month (49-41 percent) and 12-point lead in June (50-38 percent).

-- A large number of voters remain concerned about coronavirus spreading (85 percent), over half think the federal government failed to respond to the outbreak seriously enough (54 percent), and only one in five believe the virus is mostly or completely under control (19 percent). Plus, a majority (53 percent) says reopening more of the economy now is not worth the potential health risk.

-- On the economy, most rate conditions negatively (71 percent only fair or poor) and 32 percent feel they are falling behind financially, up from 26 percent a year ago.

Big picture: over half disapprove of Trump’s job performance (54 percent) and two-thirds are unhappy with the direction of the country (66 percent) -- including 4 in 10 Republicans.

As for approval:

Biden: Approve 53% Disapprove 43%

Harris: Approve 44%% Disapprove 40%

Trump: Approve 43% Disapprove 55%

Pence: Approve 41% Disapprove 51%

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