Warren, who’s called for breaking up tech behemoths and large agricultural corporations, cast her campaign as “about standing our ground and fighting back” during a rural issues forum Saturday in Storm Lake, Iowa. Democrats are eager to make inroads in rural America, Trump’s strongest territory, as
-- Elizabeth Warren issued a call to arms while Amy Klobuchar made an appeal to unity as Democratic presidential candidates offered different messages they hope will chip away at President Donald Trump’s support across the Farm Belt.
Democrats are eager to make inroads in rural America, Trump’s strongest territory, as economic strains already in place are exacerbated by the president’s trade policies. Combined with natural disasters and low commodity prices, U.S. net farm income plummeted 16 percent last year, to nearly half of what it was as recently as 2013.
At a time the Democratic Party is tilting left, Klobuchar has positioned herself as a political moderate. She presented herself as a pragmatist capable of delivering for constituents and summoned her Heartland bona fides, quoting from the Future Farmers of America creed and joking in a reference to 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin that she can “see Iowa from my porch.”
Democratic strategists are debating how much to focus the 2020 campaign on the Midwest’s rural and blue-collar voters in a bid to to wrest back Wisconsin and Michigan, and possibly Iowa and Ohio. Those states, along with Pennsylvania, voted for Trump after Democrat Barack Obama carried them twice.An alternative strategy is a path through the Sun Belt to capture North Carolina, Arizona and Georgia, which would rely more on galvanizing those states’ growing minority populations.
Story continuesDemocratic gains in the 2018 midterm elections offer the party some hope. Democrats flipped two U.S. House seats in Iowa held by Republicans, and now hold three of the state’s four Congressional districts. They also won governor’s races in Wisconsin and Kansas. Democrats even came within about 3 percentage points of ousting Representative Steve King, a conservative who has represented the northwestern Iowa district -- which includes Storm Lake -- for 16 years.
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