Is she a pollster trying to gauge the public’s response or is she a push-poller trying to shape the respondents’ opinions and sell the media on an idea with “numbers” to back up the foregone conclusion?
It looks like the latter.
In fact, I'd say the point of the article is to give Brownstein the opportunity to defame the Republican voters, to use this woman's words to keep active the meme "Republicans are racists, all the cool people are Democrats".
And as other posters have pointed out, the facts are all wrong. Trump won the Presidential election. Democrats are the party is disarray.