The Associated Press sent some reporters out to talk to suburban women in an effort to see how they’re reacting to President Trump’s winning personality. All of these types of stories are completely unscientific, but the general feel they got from talking to women outside Philadelphia, Detroit and Denver is that Trump is losing a lot of female suburban support with his racist attitude.

This is basically a no-brainer, especially if you actually live in the suburbs like I do. Suburban schools are so diverse now that pretty much every white kid has a bunch of “people of color” as friends. This is certainly true of my son, and I’d have to be some kind of complete miscreant to voice support for the president and still think my child would be welcome at birthday parties. The country has changed since the time of White Flight, and the price Trump will pay for looking to run up his numbers in all-white small towns and rural America is a worse shellacking in the nation’s suburbs.

Yet, that still doesn’t mean his plan can’t work. The Democrats are doing their damnedest to lose suburban support with some of their more extreme health care and immigration rhetoric, and some nominees would add to that the demonization of anyone who works in the insurance, pharmaceutical or financial services industries. Trump may very well do even better in rural areas than he did in 2016 when his shocking victory was almost entirely explained by his unanticipated strength there. To offset that, the Democrats need to more than match him in the suburbs, and they seem to be hellbent on playing with fire with that crucial slice of the electorate.

Remember, too, that the Democrat can run up much bigger numbers in places like Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco without it helping in the Electoral College at all. The battle will be won or lost outside of Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Columbus, Cleveland, Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Tampa, and Orlando.

Trump knows what he needs to do to win again even while getting crushed in the popular vote. But he can’t do it alone. His strategy is losing him too much suburban support. The Democrats should not do things that hand that support right back to him.