NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — If you go down two hallways, past two security checkpoints to a quiet corner of the Democratic National Committee’s winter meeting at the Gaylord Convention Center, you’ll find two-time failed congressional candidate Adam Frisch’s new campaign posters, all emblazoned with the slogan: “Dems Lost Rural America.”
Frisch, running for DNC vice chair, is telling everyone he can about the percentage of rural counties won by Democrats over the last 30 years. In 1996, Clinton won 52%. In 2012, Obama won 25%. In 2024, Harris won 8%. His campaign is built around trying to change that, or at least to slow down the decay.
“I’m not saying the whole entire thing needs to be burnt down, but the party needs to figure out how to talk to more people and realize that when it comes to immigration, the economy, domestic energy, that the loudest voices are representing 5 or 10% of the country,” Frisch said in an interview with NOTUS.