The Democratic senator from Montana tells progressives not to ignore rural America.
Sen. Jon Tester on Capitol Hill on May 21. By Jennifer Rubin Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 23 at 9:00 AM “There is no secret sauce!” Sen. Jon Tester laughed. During a brief interview after his appearance at the Center for American Progress Ideas Conference on Wednesday, the burly farmer with a buzz haircut told me there is no mystery as to how to appeal to rural voters.
Tester said that the No. 1 issue for rural America is health care. Medicaid expansion now serves about 10 percent of his state’s population. Trump’s threat to eliminate the Affordable Care Act would have been a calamity for rural voters, and for hospitals. A rural hospital closes and the town around it dies, he said.
During our conversation, Tester told me that Trump voters impacted by tariffs aren’t yet furious with the president over tariffs, or at least they don’t say so. “Maybe internally” they’re fretting, but Tester said the breaking point may come in the fall “when the bills are due.” The payments to farmers don’t make up for lost markets and reduced commodity prices. “What you get from the government never makes up for what you lost,” he observed.
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