FDR made it a blue bastion – now it’s Trump’s stronghold in California. Is it forever lost?
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- The Guardian US reports: “Shasta has embraced the Maga movement with gusto – can Democrats ever win back the rural, working-class voters they once relied upon? A crucial election was approaching and the country was desperat…”
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