The unthinkable could be happening in SC's Senate race. And it's Trump's fault

There has always been a tenuous relationship between Donald Trump and the Southern voters he derives most of his political power from.

He is a wealthy heir from New York—a flashy, superficial socialite who allegedly dodged the draft, a businessman and salesman who thinks veterans are "suckers." He thinks about the rural South like it's an episode of "The Andy Griffith Show" and not a real thing, because that's his closest connection to it.

When he spoke in Gastonia, NC, last month, he spoke of being in "Carolina," as if he wasn't sure which one he was in.

So far, many voters in the South have given him a pass on these political handicaps, mostly because he affirms their prejudices about race, immigration, and LGBTQ people.

But there is always a limit to how long you can distract people from the actual things happening in their lives.

Today, with less than a month to go before Election Day, President Trump appears to have hit that limit. And Republicans in even of the deepest of deep red states, such as South Carolina, might at last be held accountable for it.

Recent polling in the Palmetto state has Democrats thinking the unthinkable. Several polls sponsored by Democrats have their candidate, Charleston pediatrician Annie Andrews, actually leading the Republican, Darline Graham.

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Even a GOP-sponsored poll has Graham, the sister of the late Sen. Lindsay Graham, up by just a point.

Is this a mirage or a sign of a major political realignment? Let's try to make this make sense.

There comes a point where all the trans hysteria and anti-immigrant messaging in the world can't obscure the fact that life has gotten harder for most people in the last two years.