Tim Walz knows rural America. J.D. Vance, not so much.
In FERN's latest story, published with The New York Times, senior editor Ted Genoways unpacks the GOP's hollow embrace of rural America over the last quarter century and makes the case that Tim Walz can help Democrats win back some farm country voters.
Biden accelerated racial divisions, says Vance, using USDA as example
The Biden administration "certainly accelerated" federal bias in favor of racial minorities, said Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for vice president, on Sunday, arguing that the Agriculture Department "handed out farm benefits to people based on skin color" rather than on merit. The USDA recently sent $2 billion in payments to 43,000 farmers who suffered discrimination when they applied for USDA farm loans.