Blue America Is Only Growing

Ron Brownstein: “Trump has committed the GOP to a strategy of squeezing bigger margins from a shrinking share of the electorate, while systematically alienating the growing groups that Democrats are highlighting this week. He may still be able to squeeze out another Electoral College victory even if he almost certainly loses the popular vote. But even that pathway is not realistic, strategists on both sides acknowledge, unless he can significantly cut his current popular-vote deficit.”

Said GOP pollster Whit Ayres: “Donald Trump basically drew an inside straight in 2016. The question is whether he can draw an inside straight two hands in a row.”