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Rebecca Cooke: “Farmers are proud people. They are not looking for…”

Featuring: Rebecca Cooke, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Wisconsin, District 3

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Farmers see through Trump's damage control drop-by

Published | Video Starts at 05:21

And then a whole bunch of those farmers thought that Donald Trump saved them because, because he got them the subsidies for a problem that didn't exist in the first place. Let me tell you that, like, Farmers are proud people. They are not looking for government handouts. And so I think this really flies in the face of when Trump enacts these tariffs that nobody asked for. Right. And in reciprocal way, it damages trade relationships and our export markets. (05:21–05:26)

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Asserts that farmers generally do not seek government handouts.

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