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.

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

So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want.

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

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.

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.