Hello there. It is Eric Erikson here. Cross the nation from Atlanta, Georgia. The full number 8779373-7-425. I'm moving on. I'm happy to take your calls, but I got to move on. There's so much else out there. And I got to begin with this clip from Chuck Todd from his show yesterday on MSNBC, his Meet the Press weekday show.

This is really important.

Taking a look at election results over the past few decades, it shows us a flashing

warning side for Democrats as the nation's urban rural divide has deepened.

Democrats have increasingly lost support in rural America.

In 1996, then President Clinton, he won a whopping 1,117 counties, rural counties, including all but 20 of Iowa's 99

counties. Basically, he won half of the nation's rural counties. But in 2008, Barack Obama won less

than half of that, just 455 rural counties, even though he had won a popular vote by seven points nationwide.

That's all the rural counties he can win.

Fast forward to 2020, the number shrunk again. Joe Biden won just 194 counties. That's just 17% of the total that Bill Clinton won in 1996.

And the latest NBC news polling shows you that the problem has not gone away.

It's gotten worse.

Trust me, Terry McCullough in Virginia knows this.

Yes, Democrats have an advantage in the urban areas.

24 points on the generic congressional ballot.

But as you move out geographically, the Democratic numbers shrink and the Republican numbers

grow and grow big time.

34 points right now, the number appears to be growing.

Yeah, it does.

The Democrats have a huge, huge problem outside urban areas.

Now, here's the thing.

The further away from a city, the greater Republican strength.

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