… In his 2016 victory, Mr. Trump swiped several states that Democrats had assumed were theirs: Michigan, Wisconsin, Florida. But perhaps no outcome matched the psychic toll of losing Pennsylvania, where the past Democratic coalition of city-dwelling liberals, racial minorities and white working-class voters in union towns had long defined the party’s identity as a big-tent enterprise.
Two years later, a return to power — winning the House in November, winning the presidency in 2020 — will hinge in large measure on how effectively Democrats can connect with voters who migrated to Mr. Trump (or who stayed home altogether, disillusioned by a Democratic Party many of them once supported). CONT.
Matt Flegenheimer & Thomas Kaplan, New York Times