Progressives are winning most of these races. Old guard Democrats are watching from the sidelines.
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The campaign platforms of winning (or leading) candidates in red and purple states demonstrate a clear pattern: concrete economic issues of working and rural people were central.
In Kansas, Adam Hamilton’s “prairie populism” railed against the crushing costs of farming inputs, something Iowa’s Josh Turek also stressed. In Mississippi, Scott Colom emphasized the loss of labor and delivery departments in rural communities. Texas’s Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico both spoke out for rural schools against defunding and voucher programs. Keisha Lance Bottoms spoke openly about the rural-urban divide and her own roots in the Georgia countryside.
In South Carolina, Annie Andrews focused on kitchen table economics, rural healthcare and farmland preservation.
Sounds like they found different words to say "tariffs rob you" and "draconian abortion restrictions endanger all pregnant people and their doctors" and "for-profit healthcare neglects communities" and "stealing from public education to enrich religions and corporations cheats you and your children" and "high gas prices create high food prices" and "data centers steal and destroy farmland and watersheds." Good for them. Whatever it takes to help people understand.
My impression exactly. Democrats have previously taken rural voters' concerns seriously but failed to communicate in a way that reaches them.
"Pregnancy should be between a woman and her doctor, not a woman and the government" has been a VERY effective line in my experience.
Also: "Rapists shouldn't be allowed to choose the mother of their children"
No. The democrats did nothing.
Trump did this, because he's ruining everything.
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