One County from Dem to Trump

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 29, 2018

Ben Bradlee, Jr., journalist who spent 25 years at The Boston Globe as a reporter and editor, discusses his new book The Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America (Little, Brown and Company, 2018), in which he profiles the voters in Luzerne County, PA, rural Democrats who voted for Trump in 2016. Plus he discusses how they may vote in the upcoming midterm elections.

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