How Democrats Lost Rural America | Meet The Press Reports



National Democrats have raised alarms about support slipping in rural America over the last two decades.
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27 comments

  1. "She the Vote" Democrats are the reason why Dems have lost the rurals.

  2. 8:25 this is why you are losing us rural voters. Calling us names and talking down to us isn't appealing and is offensive. 90% of Iowa is white and all we ever hear from you Democrats is that we are privileged racists.

  3. I moved to Arkansas in 2018. The State is the 7th most gerrymandered State. They are hate-filled against Democrats.Their education and IQ rank 42nd in the nation. They are hyper-religious here, with bully pulpits.

    For all these reasons, tRump was their hope and dream.

    I am registered Independent, but have been called a Democrat, as an attack in my character. I have been accused of having a dizen abortions (I support choice but never had an abortion).

    The State is the fifth most unhappy in the nation, #1 for adverse childhood events, #1 for teen pregnancies.

    It is my opinion that as long as hyper-religiosity exists here, it will always be a toxic environment.

  4. The Dems lose Rural America because the GOP used identity politics and fearmongering of the Liberal to the voters and it worked. The only way the Dems can ever win them back is by showing them that they do something for them and the GOP are not. But the Dems are just too weak to do that

  5. I'm rural, white farmer who isn't a Republican. The republican party has destroyed America while the democratic party isn't doing anything for rural America.

    The party needs to get back to it's Thomas Jefferson roots.

  6. Dems have to deal with people’s economic issues if they want their votes. That’s what Bill Clinton campaigned on. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Ask James Carville.

  7. It's simple. America doesn't support communist democrats.

  8. Democrats aren't just losing rural America, they are losing the inner city too, with all the gentrification that is happening.

  9. It seems difficult for democratic leaders who haven’t missed enough meals to find empathy with rural voters

  10. Trump won rural voters because he pointed out that democrats weren’t delivering living wage jobs to them. How can you not see that. It is about survival

  11. You cannot deliver the American dream with living wage jobs . Start there it you want Rural votes.

  12. No jobs leads to drug and alcohol problems and despair. Then you want them to vote for Democrats. This demonstrates the ignorance of democratic leaders

  13. If you tell a rural Iowan that he doesn’t deserve a living wage or even a job or healthcare care long enough and they change their pronoun to Republican

  14. 40 years of democrats being complicit with republicans increasing bipartisan inequality that caused disparity due to not investing in rural jobs and diverting all the money to the wealthy and corporations. Fix it.

  15. No jobs equals economic inequality equals despair. Easily repaired

  16. Democrats have lost their own cities. Every Democrat city is a failure.

    FACT

  17. 24:05 says it all just as it has for DECADES!

  18. The very large elephant in the room was that a black man won the presidential race twice. The ignominy sparked an unprecedented rage that was exploited by the Russian propaganda machine, fanning the flames and resurrecting the spirit of the old southern strategy, a dormant viral philosophy, always waiting to duplicate itself amongst a willing host.

  19. Racist? Xenophobic? Misoginistic? Are you kidding me? Maybe talk to some Republicans in that same area next time. Chuck you are so partisan. Are you scared to talk to the locals outside of your echo chamber?

  20. They have been behind for a long time. If constituents don't get up off their rear end and Vote shame on them.

  21. History tells us America people don't like change. However change has come. Cars 🚗, airplane ✈, and computers 🖥.

  22. Change is coming Americans cannot stop it. Trump is lies is holding rural Americans back.

  23. @Aimee Allyson, do you have a CLUE about how you and your color group were dropped from the Sunday AM show, and instead, placed on YouTube for viewers who would ‘be interested’ in seeing/hearing about black rural voters???
    When ABRAMS BROUGHT IT HOME FOR BIDEN IN GEORGIA, in the form of black women voters!
    Chuck Todd deliberately, along with mccaskill, is ignoring the power of black voters, by denying the truth on-air!
    PS: We are all human beings! NOT multi-racial! ONE RACE!
    WORDS MATTER!

  24. Republicans has left them behind. Sign a bill or a law that will help rural countries. They are very white. Change the way you think Putin Russia. DNA the old hate 58 or older. Segregation. Democrat cannot change the thinking of rural Americans. America is changing. Young people have to change leadership and their votes. Propaganda does not change lives.

  25. Well, Iowans, you’ve all been tarred with the same racist, homophobic, sexist brush! I for one, am furious over the outcome of the debacle caused by Drumpf and his ignorant followers here!
    Chuck, you presented this piece on Sunday AM, and LEFT OUT THE MOST IMPORTANT INTERVIEW, for ratings! You deliberately sent us to this version, if we were interested in hearing what rural black humans had to say AND the fact that the young pink male actually TOLD YOU the problem among Iowa’s rural voters!
    Your piece is full of lies, perpetuating the myths of wyt supremacy, that was aired nationally!
    You have contributed to the rise of drumpf, and now, you are contributing to the loss of our democracy by putting forth the lies nationally and YouTubing what REALLY needs to be seen and heard!
    You are one of the many reasons I turned off my news.
    Business round table much???