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Medill Local News Initiative / Paul Farhi and John Volk
/ Dec 5, 2024“‘The wrong way to interpret this is ‘Oh, the rubes voted for Trump because they’re uninformed,’’ said Waldman, Report for America’s former president. He pointed out that Trump also increased his support in places with relatively robust local news. Instead, Waldman said, the election results show ‘that some of the most common victims of the collapse of local news’ are the same people who support Trump.” —
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2024 election,
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