[Content Note: Racism.]
"The fundamental challenge for my side is the seemingly inexorable change in the composition of presidential electorates. And there's no reason to believe that that's going to stop magically."—Republican pollster Whit Ayres, discussing a new report co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Brookings Institution, which found that "about 70 percent of the Americans eligible to vote are white, a decline of 15 percentage points since 1980."
There is also no reason to believe that Republicans are going to change their positions to appeal to significant portions of demographics other than old white people. "Magically" or otherwise.
Which means that the GOP will continue to double-down on racebaiting, voter suppression, and gerrymandering, in order to try to eke out presidential wins from their dwindling numbers of supporters in national elections.
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