Source: Jake Webster, IOWA STATE DAILY, 7/20/19


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders discussed rural and farm issues during his time speaking with members of the Iowa Farmers Union at their summer picnic in Nevada. The sounds of a guitar and fiddle filled the barn overlooking acres of cornfields — painting a Grant Wood-esque landscape before Sanders spoke. When the senator began his address, he joked he is a musician too, before turning serious and noting the state he represents in Congress — Vermont — is very rural, much like Iowa.

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