For Democrats, the voters they need are right in front of their eyes: the large and growing cohort of Republican women who broke away from the GOP, and the white, Democratic men who broke for Trump in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Florida. Democrats who recoil at actually messaging to these old white dudes, writing them off as a lost cause or viewing them as an intractable enemy, are miscategorizing these voters. For many, their choice to go with Trump was diffuse; they voted out of anger and bitterness at a system that shanked them. It was the end-product of a successful
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