Freelance Journalist, former Wall Street Journal Senior Editor.
bob.davisreports@gmail.comWe return to Virginia’s Buchanan County in 2020 to see whether Trump's support remains as strong as 2016.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/in-trump-country-supporters-are-steadfast-but-his-personality-pandemic-wear-11603800097A generation ago, Democrats represented much of the country’s manufacturing base. Now, it’s in GOP hands, a swing remaking both parties.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-manufacturing-towns-once-solidly-blue-are-now-a-gop-haven-1532013368In the fight to overturn Nafta, the White House makes common cause with Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, a longtime free-trade skeptic.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/strange-bedfellows-democrats-and-trump-blow-up-20-year-unity-on-trade-1511887447A look at some Pennsylvania towns that swung from Obama to Trump.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-places-that-made-trump-president-1478902160The economic impact of China in the Southeast and Midwest helped explain Trump's rise.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-china-shock-deep-and-swift-spurred-the-rise-of-trump-1470929543How economic disappointment helped fuel political populism.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/election-2016-is-propelled-by-the-american-economys-failed-promises-1467909580Buchanan County, Virginia was a Trump stronghold in 2016 and helped explain his appeal.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-place-that-loves-donald-trump-most-1460917663South Carolina benefited from global investment but that hasn't translated into political support for trade expansion.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/south-carolina-gop-voters-feel-the-benefits-of-free-tradebut-also-the-scars-1455663542How the promise of embryonic stem cells to treat disease shook up GOP abortion politics.
View / Downloadhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/SB96507999115094294Business was wary of Al Gore despite his deep support for technology industries.
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