Harris Tries To Win Back Rural America. It Won’t Be Easy.

Democrats say that for years, they all but ceded rural counties and even some exurbs to former President Donald Trump. Rural counties in states like Wisconsin and Nevada transformed into deep-red Trump territory and have been just about impenetrable to the left since 2016.

Harris campaign officials believe they have an opportunity with white moderate and blue-collar voters — among whom Harris may have softer appeal — by emphasizing Walz’s Midwest roots, military background, ties to labor, experience as a hunter and career as a football coach.

Harris, too, has signaled to those voters, leaning on her work as a prosecutor and her self-made biography as the immigrant daughter who worked at McDonald’s, then rose through the ranks to become vice president.
— By Natasha Korecki, NBCnews.com

Rural American saw tremendous decline in quality of life in the last 25 years. Many young people in those regions graduate from high school then head out as soon as possible and with them goes youthful energy and able bodied workers leaving an older less educated population behind. The opioid epidemic was a gut punch that left rural America struggling to survive with few places to turn. The Donald Trump came into the picture and promised to be rural America’s savior even though he came from the most elite coastal enclaves possible with no interactions with small town Americans other than with those who have moved to the coasts and work at his golf clubs. Needless to say the problems of non urban America persist and Kamala wants to offer an alternative.

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