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Matt Hildreth

  • Director, RuralOrganizing.org
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The Harris-Walz Rural Team Could Have Written the DNC Autopsy Report on Day One

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By Matt Hildreth
| Barn Raiser
Last week, after much delay, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) released its post-election autopsy of the 2024 cycle. As CNN noted, the report concludes that Harris lagged in rural areas nationally, that the gap proved insurmountable in the swing states, and that the campaign effectively wrote off rural America on the assumption that urban and suburban margins would make up the difference. Those of us who worked on the Harris-Walz campaign did not need an autopsy to tell us what happened.
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By Matt Hildreth
| WAUK-AM (Jackson, WI)
Matt Hildreth, RuralOrganizing President Trump won more than nine out of every ten rural counties in 2024. He’s now sitting at 52% favorable, 46% unfavorable among rural voters in battleground states, and 49% of rural voters in the same territory say they feel worse about him since he was re-elected, including a quarter of Republicans. That is not a man cruising into the midterms. That is a man whose coalition is fraying at the edges, and the edges are exactly where we live.
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Rural Voters: How Democrats Can Win Them Back | Susan J. Demas Talks With Matt Hildreth of Rural Organizing

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By Susan J. Demas , Matt Hildreth
| Lincoln Square
Nearly 20 years ago, Democrats won a sizable chunk of rural Americans in their coalition that helped Barack Obama win big in his first presidential election in 2008. However, the relationship between rural voters and Democrats has soured in the Trump era, with many embracing MAGA … only to find nothing but empty promises from Donald Trump’s “America First” messaging.
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