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The US president Donald Trump’s policies have hit one of his most reliable voting blocs the hardest. Rural America is grappling with skyrocketing diesel and food prices due to tariffs and the Iran war, and for some farmers, it’s impacted how they will vote in the midterm elections next month.

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00:03For four generations, Scott Thompson's family has farmed soybeans in Nebraska.
00:08I'm going to have to pull out here.
00:10The 39-year-old voted for Donald Trump three times, hoping he'd help the middle class.
00:16He's now questioning his loyalty.
00:18I think there is a large demographic of people my age that are conservative, that voted for
00:23Trump, that are really unhappy with how it went.
00:26The conflict in Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, choking off global supplies
00:31crucial for farmers.
00:33Scott Thompson says the president broke his promise of no new wars, and his bills have
00:38surged by 40%.
00:40We've been struggling with inflation, you know, fertilizer prices, machinery prices, fuel prices.
00:47The pain is being felt across the country.
00:49In Nebraska, the Farmers Union says farm bankruptcies this year have increased by nearly 50%.
00:55What we're facing right now is a man-made economic crisis.
01:01And so this did not just fall out of the sky.
01:06This is the result of policy decisions that have been made and did not work out.
01:12One in four jobs here are related to agriculture.
01:15So when farmers are hurting, there are wide-reaching consequences.
01:19Nebraska has been reliably Republican, but polling suggests there's a real chance of them losing
01:25ground here next month.
01:27Rule number one, if you don't like the hole you're in, stop digging.
01:31Donald Trump is on a campaign dash through typically safe Republican states ahead of the
01:35midterm elections.
01:37But this time, Scott Thompson isn't sold.
01:39Will you vote Democrat?
01:41No.
01:42Will you vote Trump again?
01:43No.
01:44And what situation does that put you in?
01:46That's a tough one.
01:47I will probably not vote or vote limitedly.
01:51And every vote will count.

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