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2020 Democrats target Trump gains in rural areas
ap ^ | 8/7/2019 | ALEXANDRA JAFFE and ELANA SCHOR

Posted on 08/07/2019 7:40:01 PM PDT by mdittmar

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — They’re flanked by hay bales on otherwise deserted fields, speak atop countertops at small-town coffee shops and tour farms far removed from city centers. Democratic presidential candidates are trying to prove they can gain ground in rural areas that swung to President Donald Trump.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: rural; trump2020; trumpbump
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LOL!
1 posted on 08/07/2019 7:40:01 PM PDT by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

Good luck with that you marxist losers!


2 posted on 08/07/2019 7:42:33 PM PDT by 43north (Its hard to stop a man when he knows he's right and he keeps coming.)
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To: mdittmar

I live in farm and ranch country, and none of the Democrat candidates have noticeable appeal out here. The AP really doesn’t get out of the city, do they?


3 posted on 08/07/2019 7:43:24 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: 43north

“Good luck with that you marxist losers!”

If they continue with their gun-grabbing agenda, and if Trump holds reasonably firm on our side, they’ll be very lucky to hold on to what they have.


4 posted on 08/07/2019 7:44:06 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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Someone needs to get in front of their buses with manure spreaders . That would reflect how the great majority of residents feel about them...BS.


5 posted on 08/07/2019 7:47:51 PM PDT by hal ogen (not funny<font)
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To: mdittmar

They’re going to do that with promises of gun control and health care for illegals?


6 posted on 08/07/2019 7:49:10 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: 43north

Wait, Marxists LOVE farmers!!!!

Look at how much Stalin LOVED the Ukrainian farmers!!! He loved them so much he stole their farms, grain, produce, and starved them to death.

25 million of them.


7 posted on 08/07/2019 7:51:19 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: mdittmar

They think we’re dumb.


8 posted on 08/07/2019 7:57:59 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: NFHale

“If GOD didn’t want them sheared he wouldn’t have made them sheep”. The Magnificent 7. I’m thinking rural America will tell them. “Ride On”.


9 posted on 08/07/2019 8:01:22 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought))
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To: mdittmar

We should never ever take a voting block for granted.

They are going for Texas and other areas BETO Boy was their test, he DID put up a fight against Ted Cruz.


10 posted on 08/07/2019 8:04:02 PM PDT by Trump.Deplorable
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RE “Ride On”:

Real Americans can spot the dems’ bullshit a mile away.

Ride them straight of town... on a rail.

Preferably tarred and feathered.


11 posted on 08/07/2019 8:04:59 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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How? By doxxing them, harassing them? Calling them racists? Nazis? White supremacist? I hope rural America gives them the middle finger again.


12 posted on 08/07/2019 8:05:23 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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Bump


13 posted on 08/07/2019 8:06:46 PM PDT by foreverfree
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Oh you bet. By promising Medicare for all, higher taxes, open borders, and the green New Deal all while confiscating every gun

That’ll sell well


14 posted on 08/07/2019 8:06:54 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mdittmar
There’s considerable overlap within the field on the broad foundations for helping less-populous areas of the country. Nearly every candidate with a plan has endorsed stepping up antitrust enforcement against major agriculture monopolies, incentivizing farmers to engage in more environmentally friendly practices, renegotiating trade deals to be more favorable for farmers and investments in rural broadband.

IF these are the issues rural farmers are concerned about and Democrats are exploiting these issues I can see them gaining ground.

The question is ARE these the issues farmers are concerned about?

Does anyone have any specific insight on these issues and how farmers view them?

15 posted on 08/07/2019 8:13:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Howard ‘The Scream’ Dean did really well with rural voters in 2004, didn’t he? ;-P


16 posted on 08/07/2019 8:24:13 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: mdittmar

Take this seriously, people are pretty riled up.


17 posted on 08/07/2019 8:25:19 PM PDT by BlackAdderess
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To: yesthatjallen

Rural broadband will just get their kids addicted to porn and video gaming, the heck with helping their folks on the farm...


18 posted on 08/07/2019 8:26:12 PM PDT by rfp1234 (NBC: Putting the TURD in Saturday.)
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To: mdittmar

Reputations and gun control is a sure winner there.


19 posted on 08/07/2019 8:26:48 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: mdittmar

Fake news.


20 posted on 08/07/2019 8:27:55 PM PDT by tennmountainman (Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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