A Conversation with Heidi Heitkamp

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Founding Members of the Senate’s now defunct “Oh Ya! Caucus,” Former ND Sen. Heidi Heitkamp and Al discuss Heidi’s new organization, One Country. How do Democrats get more votes in rural America? 1 – show up. 2 – listen. 3 – keep coming back. 4- listen to the podcast. Heidi lost her re-elect in a state that has turned solidly red over the past ten years. Al won both of his races in a purplish-blue state by winning big in the Twin Cities and Duluth. But he did better all-around and in rural Minnesota in his second race (2014, a bad year for Dems) because he showed up, listened, and kept coming back. Turns out rural Americans care about what other Americans care about: health care; their kids’ education; keeping their kids close to them. Which means jobs.

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0:31.0	Hello, welcome to the Franken Podcast, Heidi Heidekamp.
0:37.0	Of North Dakota is my, I guess today former senator now, like me.
0:44.0	She is from North Dakota and next door in Minnesota, both states with sizable rural populations.
0:54.0	He has started an organization, one country, which is all about helping Democrats in general,
1:03.0	Democratic politicians specifically, I guess, to get the understand rural America.
1:10.0	And it's not that hard, really.
1:13.0	You can just go there and talk to rural folks.
1:18.0	A couple of weeks ago, I think as the beginning of the monies show, so you can go back and listen to this.
1:25.0	I want to, something I'm really happy with.
1:28.0	I told the story about Wuma, Minnesota, which is a rural city.
1:33.0	It's about 20,000 people.
1:34.0	It's the county seat of Candidale High County, which is the largest turkey producing county in Minnesota.
1:41.0	And Minnesota is the largest turkey producing state in the country.
1:46.0	There's a lot of turkeys.
1:48.0	And Wilmer has a huge Jenny O turkey processing plant.
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