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.

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

If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

[People] don't like the government telling them what to do or telling them how to live their lives.

[Bernie] Sanders tapped into that [trade issues]; that was part of his support. And then when he didn't make it, some of those Sanders people went to [Donald] Trump.

NAFTA's been a big problem for sugar.

Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.