In the accompanying “newsletter,” Nate Cohn states the usual caveats that this is only one poll, yadda yadda…BUT the fact that downballot Republicans fared worse than Trump in the same polling (especially in Arizona and pre-Black-Nazi North Carolina) hints that Trump’s individual strength in these three states might be real.
My feelings are exactly like yours on this. The question in the title of this thread doesn’t care, alas. “Teardrops, rolling down my face…”