New York’s Trump Reached Rural Voters by Talking Economic Pain

Donald Trump, a product of New York City, was swept into the White House with a major assist from rural America.

A Bloomberg Politics analysis of unofficial results shows the president-elect significantly outperformed 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney in crucial areas that helped swing battleground states and swamp Democrat Hillary Clinton's urban and suburban support. Trump scored some of his biggest margins in rural counties, places where the billionaire businessman pulled off a particularly tricky political feat: convincing voters that he alone was able to understand their economic pain.