Donald Trump is managing to do the impossible—turn the one demographic he has always counted on against him. In fact, his candidacy was built around the notion that he would inspire so many white men to the polls that he could more than overcome his deficit with other demographics. But if things keep going in the direction they’re heading, Trump could ultimately perform worse than previous GOP candidates among the very group that was supposedly his silver bullet. Jeremy Peters writes:
Surveys of voters nationwide and in battleground states conducted over the last two weeks showed that Mr. Trump was even with or below where Mitt Romney, the Republican Party nominee four years ago, was with white men when he won that demographic by an overwhelming 27 percentage points.
For Mr. Trump, who has staked much of his legitimacy as a candidate on his strength in the polls, the numbers are a dose of cold, dangerous math...
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