{"id":1048879,"date":"2024-10-15T19:22:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1048879"},"modified":"2024-10-15T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T00:05:18","slug":"dnc-hosts-press-call-on-trumps-project-2025-agendas-threat-to-rural-america-as-early-vote-kicks-off-this-week-in-ga-nc-ia-ks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-hosts-press-call-on-trumps-project-2025-agendas-threat-to-rural-america-as-early-vote-kicks-off-this-week-in-ga-nc-ia-ks\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Hosts Press Call on Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Agenda\u2019s Threat to Rural America As Early Vote Kicks Off This Week in GA, NC, IA, KS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Democratic Rural Leaders Expose Harms Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Agenda Would Inflict on Rural Families as Key States with Significant Rural Populations \u2013 Including Georgia and North Carolina \u2013 Kick Off Early Vote<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the DNC hosted a press call highlighting the damage that Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda would impose on rural America. The call featured former Georgia state Senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter<\/strong>, North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton<\/strong>, DNC Rural Coalitions Director Bre Maxwell<\/strong>, and Wisconsin farmer and small business owner Dylan Bruce <\/strong>to discuss how Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would harm rural families. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Donald Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would gut checks and balances and devastate rural communities across America. Not only does Trump\u2019s Project 2025 agenda include plans to slash farmers\u2019 safety nets, tear away crucial investments in rural connectivity and infrastructure, and worsen health care access for rural communities across the country \u2013 it would also defund public schools and eliminate child care rural communities depend on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find highlights from the press call below: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen I was in the State Senate, when I ran for Governor, both my grandfathers were also in the state Senate and represented rural areas from North Georgia and South Georgia. Of course, my one grandfather is a farmer in a peanut warehouse in Southwest Georgia, Jimmy Carter. Those rural roots and the reason he got into politics are the same reason that I got into politics\u2013which is to help regular people, without distinction between urban and rural, but too often over the last several decades and really longer, you\u2019ve seen, especially in Georgia, the rural community get left behind again and again,\u201d said former Georgia state Senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jason Carter.<\/strong> \u201cAnd what we have now in this election is an opportunity to do two things: one is to have the political parties engage rural voters in a real way, and that is incredibly valuable. In fact, if you look at Donald Trump\u2019s actual agenda, the damage that it would do to rural Georgia is enormous and stands in stark contrast to what you have seen over the last several years, which is an unprecedented investment in rural America and particularly in rural Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe can already see the impacts of MAGA Republicans\u2019 Medicaid attacks: In states where Republicans have blocked Medicaid expansion, like our neighboring state of Georgia, rural hospitals have closed, severely limited emergency care access, or slashed specialist care, like OB\/GYN care, due to lack of funding. A majority of the more than 5 million women of reproductive age without easy access to obstetric providers live in rural communities,\u201d said North Carolina Democratic Party Chair Anderson Clayton.<\/strong> \u201cThis is Donald Trump\u2019s legacy. In states with abortion bans like mine, because Trump overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>, women cannot access the care they need. Since 2022, report after report continues to confirm states with abortion bans are experiencing worsening \u2013 sometimes deadly \u2013 health outcomes. Data also shows medical residents are now avoiding states with abortion bans \u2013 exacerbating existing health care provider shortages in rural communities.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cNow, I want to make clear, Donald Trump\u2019s agenda exemplified by Project 2025\u2019s anti-farmer policies is nothing new \u2014 every single year he was in office, Trump pushed massive cuts to USDA and sided with special interests over small farmers. It doesn\u2019t matter how much he tries to distance himself from Project 2025 or claims to disavow it, because he already proved with his actions that he doesn\u2019t care about farmers and rural communities,\u201d said<\/strong> Wisconsin farmer and small business owner Dylan Bruce. <\/strong>\u201cSomehow, Trump still has the audacity to insult our intelligence with ad after ad filled with lie after lie after lie. But farmers in Wisconsin and across the country remember those days. We refuse to let Trump pull the wool over our eyes with empty promises aimed to distract America\u2019s farmers and rural communities from the truth about their plans to tear away our financial security and rip away our shot to compete with the big guys.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cAs Democrats, we know it is our job to communicate our winning message to all voters, including those in rural communities. Vice President Harris, Governor Walz and the Harris-Walz coalition have led that example \u2013 showing up in rural communities across the country to bring our positive vision directly to rural voters,\u201d  said DNC Rural Coalitions Director Bre Maxwell.<\/strong> \u201cThere is a clear choice in this election for rural Americans and all Americans \u2013 Donald Trump and JD Vance\u2019s Project 2025 agenda would devastate rural communities \u2013 closing hospitals, driving costs skyhigh, dismantling public education and child care, and leaving our farmers in the dust. Vice President Harris and Governor Walz have a different vision \u2013 one where every community can thrive regardless of where they show up on a map.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic Rural Leaders Expose Harms Trump\u2019s Project 2025 Agenda Would Inflict on Rural Families as Key States with Significant Rural Populations \u2013 Including Georgia and North Carolina \u2013 Kick Off Early Vote Today, the DNC hosted a press call highlighting the damage that Donald Trump and his Project 2025 agenda would impose on rural America. 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