What derailed the Democrats? Tim Walz looks to red states for answers.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : One of their placards read: "What did free trade give us that outweighs the destruction of our communities????"
44% : His stops included a 19th-century commercial center in downtown Zanesville that has become a food hall and co-working space; a United Auto Workers local in Parma, the declining Cleveland suburb that in the 1950s had been the fastest growing city in America; a former General Motors factory in Lordstown, where Trump in 2017 promised -- falsely -- that he would bring back 1,400 lost jobs.
41% : In 2024, nearly three-quarters of its presidential vote went to Donald Trump.
30% : "It's a very red city," Begalla told Walz, "and I want to know, how do I address Trump supporters who don't believe their eyes?" Walz said he too has seen a shift.
28% : Follow Karen Tumulty Follow "What Donald Trump did very well was, he identified that people were hurting.
25% : "Look, if Donald Trump weren't doing all this, if it wasn't, you know, this scream from the public, if folks weren't rallied up, I wouldn't be here.
21% : "I want to get folks that, I think in good conscience, believed that Donald Trump was fighting for them because he correctly identified what was bothering them, but he lied to them, and he's not going to deliver," he added.
16% : "We should put everybody on the field to make sure we're fighting back against Donald Trump in every way we can.
9% : And while no one of them -- or even all of them -- "can suck up the oxygen like Donald Trump does," Walz said, they are finally responding to the frustration and demoralization of their supporters.

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