Rural voters continue shifting to the right

With a week to election day, the two presidential candidates — Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris and Republican former President Donald Trump — are crisscrossing the nation trying to snatch key votes in swing states in last-ditch efforts to win the race.

One of the areas where both parties have battled is rural white working-class voters who make up about 20% of the population. In recent elections that group has skewed dominantly Republican after years of leaning to the Democrats.

Host Scott Tong explores what the Democrats got wrong and what has worked for the Republicans, speaking to rural liberal grassroots organizer George Goehl, founder of Addition and former director of People’s Action, and Nicholas Jacobs, a political scientist at Colby College in Maine and co-author of "The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America."