Mary Welcome

2 months ago | barnraisingmedia.com | Maija Hecht |Kristi Eaton |Mary Welcome

Rural America’s decades-long shift to the right has been targeted by coastal critics as the reason Donald Trump is now President. But in August 2024, the Harris campaign’s decision to choose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as the vice presidential nominee and to hire Matt Hildreth as its rural outreach director, signaled an engagement with rural voters to reverse this trend. The effort fell short, but rural communities tended to shift red to a lesser degree than elsewhere.