The [Democratic] party's become an urban party, and they don't get rural America. They don't get agriculture.

I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

There's no question that [Donald] Trump got elected because of rural America. And our party still is in denial. They don't get it.

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

What's happened is the Republicans have been smart.

It was clear that [the number] just kept growing, and there were no [Hillary] Clinton signs. People were fed up.