No doubt. And by a pretty wide margin by today's split nation standards.
There was no scenario where Trump would not have been blamed by the left for COVID, but his initial instincts with shutting down travel, then appointing a task force led by VP Pence was excellent. His response to NY/NJ surge was near perfect, both politically and from a public health perspective. But since then, it has been a disaster. Sometimes Trump is his own worst enemy.
One of the most frustrating things about COVID response by the Trump team was the lack of defending their actions. There was a constant bombardment of “Trump is doing nothing” and that argument was often allowed to stand. I kept waiting for them to tout their efforts to streamline getting a vaccine to the public and how they shaved months off the approval process or how they were ensuring that a supply chain would be ready to deliver on Day 1 or how masks were just a bandaid and they were working on a cure, but I never heard them say any of that.
From an optics perspective yes the response to Covid since May has been bad for President Trump.
The true shame of that is that the recent European spike proves that there was likely nothing Trump could have done to stop the spread. Once the Chinese unleashed it on the world, then the die was cast.
Maybe Trump should have just embraced masking, even though it likely would have made little or no difference. Perhaps such largely symbolic action would have helped with the suburban female vote that may have sunk him when all is said and done.