Analysis: Can Tim Walz persuade at least some in red, rural Ohio to vote blue?

By Howard Wilkinson

There’s no one in the state who knows more about what Ohio’s rural voters look for in politicians than Christopher Gibbs, a working farmer from Shelby County.

“They want someone who is real; someone who is genuine,” said Gibbs, who raises corn and soybeans on his family farm about 110 miles due north of Cincinnati.

“Kamala Harris has given rural America a gift in her running mate; a gift that we can all point to raise up those who’ve felt like their voices weren’t being heard,” Gibbs said.

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