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I'm your host, Greg Sergeant.

If you pay cursory someone say we're in the middle of a racial realignment.

The idea is that Donald Trump is showing surprising strength among non-white voters,

especially working class ones, and that this helps explain why the head-to-head polling looks so rough for President Biden right now.

There's no denying that Biden remains behind in at least some polls, but political analyst Ron Brownstein has written

an important new piece for CNN on the racial realignment

thesis that adds some sorely needed nuance to the discussion. In short,

Brownstein finds that the flip side to Trump's strength among non-whites is that Biden is doing better

than you might expect among white voters. This casts some doubt on the significance

of the alleged racial realignment and has all sorts of interesting implications for our

politics in many other ways. So we invited Ron on to the show to discuss all of it.

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