americans. they re voting for it. our job is to make sure that people know the democratic party is the party that is going to deliver that for them. that means strengthi inening grass-roots, local, county level, making sure we are channelled on massive turnout. bill clinton was the signer of nafta. you look in the rust belt, it was something donald trump reminded the voters of. hillary clinton didn t spend a lot of time in rural america in particular. i guess two questions for you. do you think the clinton brand itself was maybe too tainted with big donations, big money, nafta goes back there? second, do you think democrats were perceived as looking down on rural america? i tell you whose brand was tainted is donald trump. this guy was tainted every kind of way you could imagine. no way in the world that donald trump is a champion of working people. he has hurt workers in las
people are suffering every day. they wanted something different. i think in terms of the bernie or bust notion, some folks meant that. they actually meant that. i want to throw one other thing out here. let me play for you a comment by a reporter for reports on rural america for progressive farmer. he had a provocative response on what happened post election. listen to this one piece of analysis, david. every time you heard about these polls, you heard that educated white voters were going for clinton white people without college degrees or had no college supported trump. i think they took some of these things that were said over and over throughout the last four or five months of the campaign, also very personally themselves, that rural america is not uneducated, even though maybe there are fewer people with college degrees than there might be in the metropolitan areas. that stung me.
clinton just screamed status quo and even barack obama didn t see that? very much so. this was a disruption election year. this was the anti-insider year. some democrats, especially establishment democrats, took their eye off the ball. president obama is amazing in every way. that s why he won in 2008. in 2016, people wanted something different. they re tired of talking about the foreign stuff. nobody was really focusing in on domestic issues that wealth and income inequality is high, people are suffering every day. they wanted something different. i think in terms of the bernie or bust notion, some folks meant that. they actually meant that. i want to throw one other thing out here. let me play for you a comment by a reporter for reports on rural america for progressive farmer.