Opinion: Why Democrats should visit farm communities
Pacific Junction, Iowa, resident Fran Karr, right, talks with Sen. Amy Klobuchar , a Democratic presidential candidate, on March 29. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 1 at 2:30 PM A new report confirms that President Trump is causing the most pain in areas of the country that were the most supportive of his 2016 campaign.
That last statistic is true, but the services that support them, the local governments that depend on their tax revenue and the communities in which farmers live feel real economic pain. On this, they have only Trump to blame. “One-time subsidy payments from the Trump administration to compensate producers for some of their trade-war losses helped prop up farm income in the previous quarter, but earnings plunged by an annualized $11.
Here, Sen. Amy Klobuchar — who presents herself as the candidate from the heartland — has a leg up. Her home-state newspaper, the Star Tribune, reported on a visit to Iowa by Klobuchar in late March: “The Democratic candidate for president showed the kind of fluency with small-town concerns that has helped her again and again defy her party’s declining fortunes in rural America.”
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