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Fox News Power Rankings: Trump country at a crossroads

Rural voters are wavering on the GOP as cost of living, unemployment and AI data centers reshape the political landscape in heartland states.

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Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez fights to keep a foothold in Pacific Northwest's Trump countryDemocratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington has won twice in a district that voted for Trump, making her one of the few rural Democrats in Congress.

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Arkansas’ emergency medical service providers look to federal aid to update aging ambulances, equipmentAs in many rural parts of the state, hospitals in southwest Arkansas have cut services in the face of financial constraints. That means emergency medical service providers in their communities now must drive farther to get patients to hospitals equipped to treat them.

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Trump dominated rural America. Iowa is testing whether Democrats can win them backDave Roethler is a former Donald Trump supporter in Iowa who feels disillusioned about the economy and believes middle-class families are suffering while the president benefits. It's a sentiment echoed by others in rural Iowa, where Democrats are trying to gain ground this election year. Economic concerns such as tariffs and rising gas prices may give…

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DOJ reaches settlement with Mississippi police department it found routinely violated civil rightsThe U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it reached a settlement forcing reforms for a Mississippi city and its police department, which the DOJ found discriminated against Black people, used excessive force and retaliated against critics. The settlement comes after a scathing 2024 DOJ report said the Lexington Police Department routinely violated…

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Nevada takes back $52 million for rural broadband amid fears of missed spending deadlineNevada has pulled $52 million in pandemic relief funds aimed at improving broadband access in rural areas as a federal deadline looms, a blow to efforts to inst

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Trump Predicts End to Rural Voters’ Economic WoesPresident Donald Trump said high gas prices and economic dissatisfaction among rural voters are a “small price to pay” for winning the war in Iran. “It’s a very small price to pay for not letting the most dangerous country in the world have a nuclear weapon,” he said Tuesday in response to a question from...

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