LAS VEGAS – Donald Trump is in danger of being one of his party’s biggest losers – and, as President Obama pointed out on Tuesday, a whiny one at that.
The states on Hillary Clinton’s new target list include Arizona and, of all places, Texas. In Nevada, the polling is mixed, though Clinton seems to have gained ground. A Monmouth University Poll released Tuesday put Clinton ahead of Trump here by seven points. Trump was up by two points last month. But a new Washington Post-SurveyMonkey poll, which showed her in a commanding position nationally, had her still down here by four.
All these states have something important in common: They include large numbers of Latino voters, who are clearly mobilizing to defeat Trump. He is also suffering from profound weaknesses among African-Americans, college educated voters of all backgrounds, and the young.
Much has been written about whether Clinton will be able to bring enough young voters to the polls on Nov. 8 and also not lose too many of them to third-party candidates.
But notice this: Nobody is saying that she will hemorrhage younger Americans to Trump, because she won’t. “For millennials, the choice is Clinton, third party or the couch,” said John Della Volpe, who has long overseen Harvard’s Institute of Politics polling of young people.