Although President Donald Trump has taken a beating in his nationwide approval ratings, he can still claim a significant victory: He is still more popular than his former foe, Hillary Clinton.

A Bloomberg News survey released Tuesday and conducted July 8-12 found only 39 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of Clinton. Trump registered a 41 percent approval rating.

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In total, 58 percent of Americans view Clinton unfavorably, while 55 percent feel the same about the president.

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“There’s growing discontent with Hillary Clinton even as she has largely stayed out of the spotlight,” said pollster J. Ann Selzer, the survey’s overseer. “It’s not a pox on the Democratic house because numbers for other Democrats are good.”

That Clinton’s current level of disapproval remains below the president’s is especially noteworthy considering the ongoing media hysteria targeting the White House over Russia and the stall of the Trump agenda in Congress.

Clinton has also slid further than Trump in the months since the 2016 election.

While just 6 percent of Trump voters indicated that they now view the president in an unfavorable light, more than one-fifth of Clinton’s voters now disapprove of the former secretary of state.

In the months since her loss, Clinton has remained largely out of the spotlight, surfacing several times to deliver speeches, participate in interviews, and tweak  Trump and his policies. When she does resurface, Clinton sometimes blames the Russians, misogyny, former FBI Director James Comey, and other factors for her loss.

But the shadow of Clinton’s candidacy and her lack of popularity throughout her campaign continue to dog her, more than eight months later.

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The highest approval rating Clinton earned since 2009 occurred shortly after the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya. But as controversies arose concerning the part she played leading up to the attack and during its aftermath, the then-secretary of state’s popularity plunged. Clinton’s current disapproval rating is her second-lowest.

In September 2015, Clinton hit her lowest point when 59 percent of the poll’s respondents weighed in during her primary “as she battled with Sanders before the first primary ballots were cast, and as the scandal surrounding her use of a private email server escalated,” Bloomberg noted.

The Bloomberg News survey polled 1,001 American adults by phone and included a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Trump occasionally returns to Twitter to bash Clinton for the scandal surrounding the FBI’s investigation of her use of a private email server while secretary of state, as well as the news gleaned from WikiLeaks dumps regarding how former acting Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile reportedly leaked a primary debate question to Clinton while scorning Sanders.

The most recent of Trump’s criticisms came Sunday when he tweeted, “HillaryClinton can illegally get the questions to the Debate & delete 33,000 emails but my son Don is being scorned by the Fake News Media?”

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At the time of that tweet, the president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., faced heightened criticism for holding a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised to offer dirt on Clinton during the summer of 2016.

The second most-recent incident occurred Wednesday when Trump tweeted, “Why aren’t the same standards placed on the Democrats. Look what Hillary Clinton may have gotten away with. Disgraceful!”

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