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

Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.

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.

I fought NAFTA when it passed; it has been a big disaster for us, in my opinion. If we can renegotiate that, it would be wonderful.

A lot of it is backlash against all this political correctness that's going on.

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

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