'A Flannel Shirt Doesn't Mean You Blend In': Why These Rural Voters Are Over Tim Walz

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : He said he cared about health care and childcare and economic opportunity and gun control -- and, most of all when he signed up to run, "to do what I can as a candidate to beat Trump.
48% : (The Republican insult "Tampon Tim" comes from a bill requiring public schools to provide their students access to menstrual products).
46% : Ackland and her husband, Mark, told me they knew some Republicans they doubted would vote for Trump this year -- a cousin, a Republican who had written a letter to the editor they'd read.
41% : Today, he said, "I don't think Trump has ever been stronger in rural areas."
37% : And in a yellow safety vest by the concession stand, there was Mike Murtaugh, a former mayor of Albert Lea who, like a large number of people here voted for Barack Obama -- and for Walz -- before voting twice for Trump.
31% : It's hard to get more rural or conservative than Peterson, who didn't support Trump's impeachment and who voted in favor of gun rights and anti-abortion legislation.
31% : "Trump, he said, "is not pulling punches and he's not being politically correct and that's appealing to some people.
17% : Before flipping to Trump in 2016, Freeborn County, on Minnesota's border with Iowa, had gone twice for Obama.

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