MAGA's Midterm Defectors
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MAGA's Midterm Defectors

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202627 min
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  • Politics

Perhaps no American feels the domestic effects of the war, tariffs and inflation more than the Iowa farmer. The political environment stirred up by those farmers’ strife could allow the Democrats to seize the moment and elect one of theirs to the Senate or the governor’s mansion for the first time in 20 years — making Iowa potentially one of the most important states on the map this midterm cycle. Today, we follow Caleb Renner, a young farmer in north central Iowa, as he shows the effects of the past two years on his community and talks about why th...

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Yesterday on the show, our colleagues from the politics desk explained just how much next month's midterm elections will come down to the decision making of Republican voters in red states who are now deeply disillusioned with President Trump and whether that disillusionment will push them into the arms of Democrats. Today, daily producer Anna Foley travels to Iowa, a state Trump and Republicans have dominated for the past decade,

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