It was clear that
It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up. Collin Peterson
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It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up. Collin Peterson
NAFTA’s been a big problem for sugar. Collin Peterson
When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It’s been the exact opposite. Collin Peterson
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. Collin Peterson
Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, We don’t want to deal with these guys because they’re too conservative, or We don’t agree with them on social issues. Collin Peterson
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. Collin Peterson
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. Collin Peterson
Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you’re not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you’ve got districts that are competitive, so that you’ve got a shot at electing Democrats. But that’s more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done. Collin Peterson
There’s no question about it. If you look at the map, there’s hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There’s me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that’s five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That’s a problem. Collin Peterson
If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we’d have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don’t ever talk to a Republican, they don’t have to and they don’t want to. Collin Peterson