Why Red, Rural Voters Want to Split From Big Blue Cities
WSJ What’s News
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | Trump's pick to head the U.S. Federal Communications Commission says he's ready to take on big tech. |
| 0:36.3 | And the growing movement among rural Republican voters to |
| 0:40.0 | separate from Democratic-run cities. They're pretty popular in surveys and stuff. And if you just |
| 0:46.2 | look at the voting that happened, these seven counties in Illinois that recently agreed to the plan, |
| 0:51.6 | they're winning by 75 percent. Plus, Trump's plans for carmakers could reshape the auto industry. |
| 0:59.4 | It's Monday, November 18th. |
| 1:01.4 | I'm Tracy Hunt for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 1:03.6 | This is the PM edition of What's News, the top headlines and business stories that move the world today. |
| 1:12.7 | President-elect Trump has picked Brendan Carr, a career telecommunications lawyer and |
| 1:17.5 | regulator, to lead the Federal Communications Commission as its next chairman. |
| 1:22.7 | Carr is the senior Republican on the five-member commission and has championed many of Trump's causes. |
| 1:28.8 | He's also one of the authors of the Project 2025 policy paper, where he outlined plans to remove regulations that conservatives consider overbearing or outdated. |
| 1:40.1 | Joining us now is WSJ reporter Drew Fitzgerald. |
| 1:43.9 | So, Drew, |
| 1:44.7 | Shortly after his appointment was announced, |
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