After enduring electoral defeats, DNC looks at rural voters as a key to the success of the middle of the period

First in Fox— The National Democratic Committee (DNC) plans to focus much of Your campaign efforts By winning rural voters in the mid -period elections 2026, according to the outgoing president of the party, an expanding effort that hopes to help the party to participate and educate the new voters, and loosen what many see as the control of Ironclad President Donald Trump in many voters of the Red State. .

The new strategy was exclusively seen to Fox News Digital by the outgoing president of DNC, Jaime Harrison, before the scheduled vote of the DNC on Saturday to select his successor as the next party leader.

In an interview, Harrison said the strategy, which have spent weeks, if not months in creation, is designed to refute many of Trump’s Campaign trail claims On the economy, health insurance and taxes for average Americans.

Rather, Harrison said the goal is to tie Trump more with these policies and present the case to voters directly that Trump is “using Rural America and giving rural voters nothing in return.”

“An examination of the Trump’s second term and the first administrative actions reveals that rural families and the resources they trust are in greater danger than ever,” said the DNC in a preview of its new electoral strategy memo , shared exclusively with Fox News.

“One can conclude that Donald Trump is using Rural America and giving rural voters nothing in return,” the memorandum continued.

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Trump’s rhetoric has been praised for a long time as refreshing by voters, who resonate with what many said they consider that their unorthodox good faith and anti-establishment. However, there is a difference between Trump as presidential candidate and Trump as president. It is “he only says things and does not have the power to implement them”, compared to being back in the Oval office, Harrison said.

However, the DNC effort will seek to challenge this assumption by highlighting the victories secured by former President Joe Biden in his first mandate, including the standards of coffee fuel economy for gas vehicles, investing in the manufacture of EV and the chains of battery supply, taking energetic measures. Pollutants and PFA pollution, and assigning billions of dollars in clean energy and climate spending.

Trump has promised to undo many of these policies After retaking the control of the oval office.

To date, he has fulfilled his promise. Trump used his first week in office to sign hundreds of orders and executive actions, a vertiginous avalanche of orders that, among other things, sought to take energetic measures against immigration, unleash exports of liquefied natural gas and freeze all expenses approved by The Congress, even if it is temporarily temporarily. .

The Democrats, meanwhile, have tried to use the Vice-Grep of Trump in the news cycle after the inugation to double their efforts to attract voters and prepare for the intermediate parts, regardless of how far they may seem.

This includes focusing on issues such as medical care coverage and medical suppliers, which have suffered “important” disparities in rural America, and where doctors have gone into mass in the midst of a burst of hospital closures and a shortage of patients insured.

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Many of the states led by Republicans who did not choose to expand Medicaid saw broad hospital closures, higher pocket costs for recipes and access much more limited to recovery or substance abuse programs, Harrison said.

Rural communities are also seeing more limited access to doctors, emergency treatment centers and lack of access to important medicines, since the Biden era programs decrease.

“These things will have a harmful impact on Rural America,” he said.

Even so, Harrison acknowledged that the Democratic Party also needs to do its share to meet the voters where they are in 2026, only months after the humiliating defeat of the party in the 2024 Presidential election.

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However, changing hearts and minds will not happen overnight, he said.

Rather, it will require many conversations of the leaders of the state party at the local level, who can identify key issues for voters and help recruit good candidates for the next electoral cycle.

“I think what we have to do is paint an image for the American people of all the things we trust: all the things that are necessary and necessary in these communities, and that sometimes we do not even know that they are (programs) that The federal government is financing, “said Harrison.

“Those things are in danger under this administration.”

“We want people to know that these things not only happen by chance. It is happening because Donald Trump is taking this extremist of the radical right and trying to implement and, therefore, affecting the quality of his life.”

The DNC effort will also explain to voters what they say it will happen if these policies are receded, according to Trump’s plans, Harrison said.

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“The second is to have our cannons: we go out and work with our state parties and recruit candidates to execute in 2026,” he said about the candidates who are well positioned to speak with the communities they represent.

In Harrison’s opinion, this will also help explain voters how Trump’s drastic cuts or reductions will specifically affect their communities.

“And then we continue to have that conversation, one by one, in small and bigger groups with people in those communities,” he said. “And this is how we put ourselves on a much stronger foot in the mid -period elections 2026”.