Who's The Hunt County Pick?

  
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 The presidential race is now between candidate Joe Biden for the Democratic party and President Donald Trump for the Republican party. With the upcoming 2020 General Election, what way are Hunt county citizens going to lean? A&M-Commerce political science Assistant Professor Ayal Feinberg pointed out that Hunt County will likely continue to vote red due to Hunt County political trends.
    " The data doesn’t lie. In the last 20 years, over the prior five presidential elections, the Republican candidate never received less than 66% of the vote in Hunt County," Feinberg said. "Donald Trump earned 75.8% of the county’s vote in 2016, the highest of any Republican candidate ever."
    He also points out that while Commerce is considered to be a part of the Dallas Fort Worth area, Hunt County is a rural community. Rural areas, particularly white working and middle-class demographics has historically offered significant support for President Trump. A study by the Pew Research Center of 2016 general election voters backs this, showing that those who voted for President Trump were primarily white. These voters manly came from rural and suburban communities. In terms of what chances Biden has, Feinberg points out the candidate's past and the focus of his campaign may help him in the end.
   "Biden has working-class roots," he said. "And has focused primarily on economic recovery rather than stalwart progressive issues that may turnoff Hunt County citizens like gun reform."



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