In a New Republic opinion column, Perry Bacon argues that the pundit class's post-2024 story of a Trump multiracial coalition is dead, citing 2026 exit polls showing roughly 72 percent of voters of color backed Democrats even as white voters backed Republicans, and quoting David Brooks, Ezra Klein, and Nate Cohn's claims of Democratic erosion among nonwhite voters. Bacon says pundits ignored that 2024 results were driven by inflation and anti-incumbency, that white voters, not minority ones, put Trump in power, and he demands commentators stop downplaying America's racial political divides.