They have not been going up at 2% a year, especially over the past 20 years. And listen, and Trump figured out in a really horrible, pessimistic way to do that. I'll share this with you. There's 3100 counties in the country ranked. 2000 of them are rural, defined by the Department of Agriculture, all based on density, which is pretty much our 27 counties. Bill Clinton won half of the rural counties in the country. Rural America in the mid nineties was 50 5012. Years later, Barack Obama, he wins 25% of the rural counties. (13:13–13:23)
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