… Across the country, Trump has performed best in the sorts of places Democrats could afford to lose: landslides in Appalachia or in white counties of the deep South. To win the White House in November, he must extend his appeal to unlikely states and unlikely parts of those states. In one of those places — the suburbs of Pennsylvania — Trump is not as toxic as Democrats expected. …
Democrats see opportunities with nonwhite voters alienated by Trump, and they are encouraged by polls that show Arizona, Georgia and North Carolina as battlegrounds. But the flip side is Trump’s potential to win industrial states such as Pennsylvania and moderate suburbs such as Bucks County that were seen as safe or trending blue. CONT.
David Weigel, Washington Post