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.

When it [NAFTA] was sold, we were supposed to get two or three times more exports to Canada or Mexico than they exported to us. It's been the exact opposite.

I've tried to maintain my independence in Congress. Sometimes that has meant opposing my own party leaders.

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.

Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses.

There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.