KING: With tight poll numbers, Donald Trump could absolutely become President of the United States

Yes, this is real life.

KING: With tight poll numbers, Donald Trump could absolutely become President of the United States

In two new polls (NBC News & Quinnipiac), Donald Trump is now nearly tied with Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. How?

Trump is crushing it with white people, men, and independents — three significant voting blocs that are highly unlikely to be breaking for Hillary Clinton. This race is close. Donald Trump could absolutely become President of the United States.

Pundits and experts will tell you to ignore these polls. It's too soon. They don't matter. They are flawed. Those numbers won't hold. Wait until July. Wait until August. Wait until September, October, November.

Don't listen to them. It was this same type of thinking, fueled by a mix of smug aloofness and out of touch "experts," that caused the entire world to be shocked by Brexit. While millions of people in the UK and beyond were repeatedly told that Brexit wouldn't happen, that voters in the UK would not vote to leave the European Union, they did. It's happening.

We saw this same thinking for ten straight months when Donald Trump was the Republican nominee. Experts repeatedly said Donald Trump would crash and burn and another candidate would rise up and overtake him. Donald Trump ended up getting more votes than any Republican primary candidate in American history. He crushed his competition. It's hard for me to say this, but the strength of his victory is grossly understated. It's also misunderstood.

While I firmly believe that Donald Trump is an unethical, sexist, dishonest, xenophobic bigot and his campaign is fueled by a deeply entrenched current of white supremacy in America, it's much more than that — and that's what Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party, and the pundits who back them fail to understand.

Our discourse on the rise and sustained success of Donald Trump as a presidential candidate has been dangerously simple. While he may very well be getting 100% of the votes from anti-immigrant bigots, we have made a serious mistake by dismissing the cause of their support as nothing more than bigotry. Again, it's a big factor, but more is at play here.