"Rural Voters Roar" with Chris Clayton

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🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Chris Clayton, Agriculture Policy Reporter for DTN, tells Chuck Todd that many voters felt threatened by change during the Obama Administration.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:04.0	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:08.0	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:11.0	I'm Chuck Todd, and today my guest is Chris Clayton.
0:14.0	He's Agriculture Policy Editor for DTN.
0:18.0	Chris, welcome to the podcast.
0:20.0	I want to set you up this way.
0:22.0	You wrote in your post-election piece.
0:25.0	Rural America Roars, and you added,
0:28.0	political shows are asking questions about how nobody saw this.
0:32.0	But there were signs.
0:34.0	There were so many signs, Trump Pence and Clinton for prison 2016 signs.
0:38.0	They were scattered across the lawns and highways in rural America.
0:42.0	Clinton, Cain signs, were fewer and far between.
0:46.0	So Chris, I take it, Trump's success in rural America was no shock to you.
0:53.0	It was a little.
0:55.0	I mean, you know, I expected Trump to win rural America and certainly
1:03.0	farm country everywhere.
1:06.0	But I just didn't expect the magnitude in which he won.
1:10.0	And if you can look in Iowa and just compare it to 2012.
1:17.0	And Trump was winning Cat 1 counties in Iowa.
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