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The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

Collin Peterson

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Collin Peterson
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 29
Accountant
Politician
U.S. Representative
Fargo
North Dakota
Collin Clark Peterson
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[Rural people] have a different lifestyle, and they don't want to change it. They're happy with the way things are. It's causing the party political problems.
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It was kind of interesting: [People] didn't really want to talk about it too much. And then after the election, it's kind of like they've been unleashed.
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I always run ahead of the ticket [compared to Democratic presidential candidates]. But this time there were a lot of people that just voted party line, a lot more than usual.
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I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.
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You can't have a majority party in Minnesota or throughout the country without [support from] the people in these [rural] districts. Given the position [the Democratic Party] has taken, it's very hard to see how you can do that.
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The only thing I can think to do is if the Democratic Party can do what the Republicans have done, which is go in there and take control of these legislatures and governors' areas.
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It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.
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[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.
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[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.
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We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.
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I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake.
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[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues] that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.
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The banks run the place.
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I agree with [Donald] Trump: These trade agreements have not been good deals for America, and they need to be fixed.
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I heard a lot about the Affordable Care Act, too. About how people in the individual market were getting clobbered with all these increases, which is a legitimate issue.
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What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.
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The New York Federal Reserve is a tool of the big banks.
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There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.
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[Rural voters] have a different view of the world than people do in these urban centers.
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I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.
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