Trump can win without Latinos. But he’s also showing us the GOP disaster that lies ahead.

And as I said before, it’s not as if this is a deal-breaker for 2016 that makes it impossible for Republicans to win.

But this is a short-term strategy. And you need look no further than Arizona, Georgia and Texas to see why. If you lump them into the swing-state mix, for example, suddenly Hispanics are a can’t-ignore group. They move from being vastly underrepresented in swing states to being overrepresented. Fully 43 percent of eligible Hispanic voters would now live in those 14 swing states, compared with 42 percent of Hispanics and 41 percent of whites.

A big reason for this, of course, is just Texas, which has more eligible Latino voters (3.9 million) than all 11 of the previously mentioned swing states combined. And between it, Arizona and Georgia, it’s probably the least likely target for Democrats in this and future presidential elections.