Iowa’s Democrat-voting farmers ahead of Monday’s caucuses: ‘We are cannon fodder’ via YahooFinance
Farmers and other rural voters could be the key on caucuses night. Nearly a quarter of Iowans are either active farmers or have been at some point in their lives.
The hard times have helped push Campbell—a lifelong Republican—away from the party. The last election in 2016 was the first time he’d ever cast his presidential vote for a Democrat. “I voted for Clinton,” he said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “When I did that, let me tell you, that was like pulling me through a knot hole backwards, boy.” Campbell is planning to attend his first ever Democratic caucus on Monday night and support Sen. Amy Klobuchar.
Farm groups have expressed anger with the Trump administration’s decision to grant waivers on environmental rules that have had the impact of reducing the amount of ethanol in the nation’s gasoline supply. The Trump administration has responded by considering changes to the exemptions in the biofuels deal somewhat to help increase ethanol demand. They reportedly may announce changes as early as next week.
Story continuesA rural twist on the health care issueDr. Glenn Hurst lives in the tiny western Iowa town of Minden . He’s a physician and serves as vice chair of the “rural caucus” within the Iowa Democratic Party. Preparing to caucus amid overwhelming Trump supportWhile Trump has maintained a sky-high approval rating among farmers, he has returned the favor by lavishing attention on them. In fact, he brought up farmers well over 100 times in 2019 while discussing the ongoing China trade talks, according to an analysis by Yahoo Finance.
Johnson is passionate about the troubles farmers have endured in recent years. As she talks up Klobuchar, her chosen candidate, Johnson focuses her efforts on what she calls the “movable middle.” There is a group of her fellow farmers, she believes, who are open to listening and are beginning to realize that “maybe [Trump] doesn't always do right, and maybe he doesn't fulfill his promises, and maybe he's told a few lies.
Even after all her work, Klobuchar remains in fifth place across Iowa and her campaign manager, in a memo to reporters, predicted that “achieving viability in rural and mid-sized precincts will propel us forward in the delegate count.”
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