The scathing letter released Monday by 50 former top GOP national-security officials declaring that Donald Trump “lacks the character, values and experience to be President” was a missile aimed directly at the embattled Republican nominee’s greatest weakness: the doubts about his qualifications for the nation’s biggest job, particularly among white-collar whites. …
Those fears loom as especially formidable hurdles in the group where Trump is most conspicuously underperforming compared with the showings of previous Republican nominees: whites holding at least a four-year college degree. And it is precisely that group that may respond most to the unequivocal rejection of Trump by so many former top GOP foreign-policy officials from the Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, The Atlantic