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Susan Wild: “After Trump came along, it went from sort of a working class…”

Featuring: Susan Wild, Democratic | Former U.S. House, Pennsylvania, District 7

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PA Dem Rep. Wild Insults Her Carbon County Constituents: 'They Drank the Trump Kool-Aid"

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Matt actually had represented Carbon county in the past, and so it was very valuable to me in terms of talking to him. It was then represented by Dan Meuser. But After Trump came along, it went from sort of a working class blue district to, you know, they drank the Trump Kool Aid and it really became a red county. And so I was dismayed, frankly, when I got that as part of my district. But what I have learned since then is that they've been sorely they were sorely neglected at the federal level under their last representative, who was a Republican. (00:00–00:51)

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Asserts that Carbon County shifted from a working-class blue district to a red county after Trump came along.

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