President Trump is building his reelection campaign around the same brand of nativism that energized tens of millions of aggrieved whites and got him elected in 2016. Because of the verities of the electoral college, there is a body of evidence that suggests doubling down on an agenda of exclusion will work in 2020. But three new polls also pinpoint fault lines within the GOP on the immigration issue that the president’s opponents might capitalize on – if they’re able to figure out how to swim against the leftward rip current that threatens to drown the eventual Democratic nominee. CONT.
James Hohmann, Washington Post