Special Election Results in Trump County Give Democrats Hope

Mar 14, 2018, 12:45 PM

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Until very recently, Bob Rogers, a retired coal miner in his seventies, thought his party was dead. Rogers, who flew Chinook helicopters in Vietnam before spending 43 years in the mines of western Pennsylvania, is a lifelong Democrat, but for a while now has worried that people like him had been forgotten by the party.

"They were strong union supporters and they've just dropped the ball in that respect," he says.