I get what Trump is trying to do. His new senior campaign leaders — led by pollster KellyAnne Conway — have looked at the demographics of the country and, rightly, concluded that he simply can't win enough of the white vote to make up for how badly he is currently losing the black and Hispanic vote.

In the Post-ABC poll conducted earlier this month, Hillary Clinton led Trump 50 percent to 42 percent. Among white voters, Trump held a 52 percent to 40 percent edge but among nonwhite voters Clinton held a massive 75 percent to 18 percent edge.

Consider that in the 2012 election, Mitt Romney won the white vote by 20 points — the largest margin since Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide — and still lost convincingly because of his single-digit performance with black voters and the meager 27 percent he got with Hispanics. Trump is underperforming Romney among both white and nonwhite voters as of today.

Breaking news: The country is changing rapidly, and whites as a percentage of the electorate have dropped in each election since 1992. Those are facts, facts that the Trump campaign appears to suddenly be aware of.

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Here's the problem for Trump: The general election is in 76 days. (I may have mentioned this before.) And, the campaign he has run has convinced large swaths of Hispanics and African Americans that he is, in fact, a racist.

Again, the Post-ABC poll is instructive here. A majority — 56 percent — of registered voters say that Trump is biased against women and minorities. That includes 43 percent who felt “strongly” that he is biased. The numbers are even more eye-popping when you narrow the focus to nonwhites; 79 percent of Hispanics say Trump is biased while 83 percent of African Americans say the same. (Even among whites, 51 percent say Trump is biased against women and minorities.)