This framing is BS. If Heitkamp and Vilsack are so great at garnering support from white rural people, why are both of their states ruled by right wing ghouls? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/us/politics/biden-agriculture.html?referringSource=articleShare

And why, following these corn belt sages’ counsel, did Biden get trounced by Sanders & Warren in the Iowa caucuses, & then by Trump there in the general? Their constituency is agribusiness, not actual voters.

Also, Fudge is extremely qualified. An expert on hunger policy-2/3 of the farm Bill—longtime ag committee member, and former chief of the conservation sub-committee.

Also, really, Vilsack, pushing yourself and Heitkamp over an extremely qualified Black candidate, after your abysmal performance on the stain of USDA racism? https://www.google.com/amp/s/thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/amp/

In short, Vilsack, go back to getting $$$$$ for peddling wildly overproduced, factory-farmed US milk to countries w no tradition of dairy consumption. Leave room at USDA for someone who wants sane food/ag policy, and not agribusiness as usual. /End angry rant

BS framing repeated today. Again, Heitkamp and Vilsack do not “represent rural America.” They have no popular constituency, no impulse for new policy. They rep agribusiness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/28/us/politics/biden-cabinet.html?referringSource=articleShare